VERITY NOW, a coalition to end gender discrimination in vehicle safety testing, released a statement in response to Dr. Steven Cliff’s confirmation as the 16th Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

VERITY NOW, a coalition to end gender discrimination in vehicle safety testing, released a statement responding to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) release of new data showing traffic fatalities reached a 16-year high in 2021. NHTSA estimates 42,915 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes last year, a 10.5% increase from the 38,824 fatalities in 2020 - the largest annual percentage increase in the Fatality Analysis Reporting System’s history.

Today Verity Now, a coalition advocating for gender equity in car safety, unveiled a new ad campaign targeting NHTSA using the agency’s own iconic PSA campaign to push the agency to finally use female crash test dummies in all New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) testing.

NHTSA announced updates to its flagship 5-Star Safety Ratings program that preserves gender discrimination by failing to require equal quality of technology and the same nature and number of tests for women as the government requires to protect men.

Today dozens of former members of Congress, gender equity, and transportation leaders sent a letter to Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg asking him to end gender discrimination in a car safety testing program. The letter was sent by VERITY NOW, a coalition advocating for gender equity in car safety.