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Euro NCAP SAFER TRUCKS programme wins international road safety award

Euro NCAP’s groundbreaking SAFER TRUCKS programme has received the 2025 Prince Michael International Road Safety Award, a recognition of its innovative work to bring independent safety ratings to heavy goods vehicles (HGVs). This Award marks a pivotal moment for commercial vehicle safety in Europe and underlines the necessity of addressing...

Mercedes-Benz Actros joins elite with Euro NCAP five-star rating

The star of Mercedes-Benz now shines on Euro NCAP’s truck leaderboard. In the latest round of testing, the Mercedes-Benz Actros has achieved a five-star rating in the Euro NCAP Safer Truck programme, joining Volvo’s FM and FH Aero models at the top. This marks a significant step forward for truck...

Renault Trucks T keeps its 4 Euro NCAP stars and earns the CitySafe label 

Euro NCAP, Europe’s benchmark for vehicle safety assessment, extended to heavy-duty trucks since 2024, has released the results of its latest campaign. The Renault Trucks T confirms its high safety performance: it keeps its 4-star rating with an improved overall score of 76%. The model has also been awarded the...

Volvo scores five stars in second Euro NCAP safety rating of heavy trucks

Volvo Trucks has done it again – receiving the maximum 5-star safety rating for heavy-duty trucks from the European consumer test organization Euro NCAP. Both the Volvo FH Aero and the Volvo FM scored top results in the 2025 rating. Euro NCAP’s first ever safety test for heavy-duty commercial trucks...

Euro NCAP’s Safer Trucks testing programme gets new Associate Member

The European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) is partnering with QBE, making the insurer the the first Associate Member to join its new Safer Trucks testing programme. Euro NCAP, the independent body behind vehicle safety launched its Safer Trucks testing programme in November last year to create a safety...

Euro NCAP puts Heavy Goods Vehicle safety in the spotlight

The safety of the trucks on European roads is in the spotlight after Euro NCAP today revealed the first set of results for its brand-new TRUCK SAFE assessment programme.

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Euro NCAP begins new truck safety testing

Testing has started in labs across Europe as Euro NCAP’s Truck Safe programme gets underway.

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Euro NCAP move closer towards Truck Safe rating scheme

Euro NCAP is moving closer towards the development towards a Truck Safe rating scheme, in in direct response to data showing that while trucks represent only 3 per cent of vehicles on Europe’s roads they are involved in almost 15 per cent of all EU road fatalities.

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Calls for ADAS to be more widely available in small panel vans

Euro NCAP has for the first time released the crash avoidance ratings for eight vans in the small panel van category, most of which have equivalent passenger versions.

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Euro NCAP announces plans for HGV testing

Euro NCAP has released highly anticipated, more stringent Commercial Van ratings for 2023 and announced plans for safety testing of HGVs.

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