Trucks Euro NCAP

15/07/2026

🚛 What’s coming up in Euro NCAP’s Safer Trucks programme? 🚛

At Road Transport Expo Stoneleigh 2026 in the UK, Euro NCAP’s Matthew Avery, Director of Strategic Development, looks ahead to the next phase of heavy vehicle safety testing. ⚙️

Since 2024, Euro NCAP has been assessing heavy trucks across fleet tractors, rigids, city distribution, and regional distribution categories. For 2027, the focus moves to construction trucks and the Category G off-road sector. This is to ensure that the programme reflects more real-world truck use cases. 📈

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13/07/2026

🚛 If truck drivers can’t see clearly, how do they avoid an accident? 🚛

At Road Transport Expo Stoneleigh 2026 in the UK, Euro NCAP’s Oliver Canham, Commercial Vehicle Programme Manager, highlights why direct vision is just as important as crash avoidance technology in truck safety. 🤝

A large windscreen, low beltline, and direct vision window can give drivers a clearer view of vulnerable road users and hazards around the vehicle, helping prevent collisions before technology even needs to intervene. 👀

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30/06/2026

⚠️ Euro NCAP calls out to industry: urgent safety updates required to trailers⚠️

Euro NCAP’s latest research, supported by National Highways, Trafikverket, ADAC, and Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, reveals serious weaknesses in the rear impact protection fitted to many trucks and trailers in Europe and the UK. For fleet operators, trailer manufacturers and road transport businesses, the message is clear: let’s work together to improve safety through strengthening standards and implementing retrofit solutions. 🚛

Around 400 deaths every year across the EU and UK are potentially linked to rear underrun impacts with trucks. These crashes can occur when a passenger car hits the rear of a stationary or slow-moving trailer and slides beneath it, causing severe intrusion into the car’s occupant compartment. Current rear underrun guards may not provide sufficient protection in these scenarios, even when the car has 5-star crash protection. 🛣️

Euro NCAP’s testing also highlights the need to improve crash avoidance. Some older ADAS and AEB systems struggle to detect real trailer rear-ends in everyday conditions, including motorways, roadworks, poor weather, and low visibility. ADAS systems must be improved to recognise trucks and trailers reliably, while physical rear underrun protection must be strong enough when avoidance fails. ⚙️

Euro NCAP is calling on European and UK regulators to strengthen standards in line with the proven US IIHS voluntary TOUGHGUARD benchmark. Trailer manufacturers and fleets are also urged to support voluntary upgrades and retrofit solutions for existing trailers already operating on European and UK roads. Safer trailers protect drivers, reduce crash severity, and help fleets manage risk more responsibly. 🚚

“The current legislation behind Europe’s truck and trailer rear underrun protection needs to be updated urgently to prevent this type of impact that can prove fatal for drivers and their passengers. The good news is that the solution is already available in the US with the IIHS voluntary TOUGHGUARD standard; the sooner the rear impact guards on Europe’s and the UK’s trucks and trailers are updated, the better, so we can do our job and save lives,” says Matthew Avery, Director of Strategic Development, Euro NCAP.

Read the full press release here 👉 https://commercial-vehicles.euroncap.com/press-media/euro-ncap-reveals-fatal-flaws-in-trailer-underrun-safety-that-cost-400-lives-every-year/ 🚗

Watch Matthew Avery explain this issue here 👉 https://youtu.be/TjokBKhDoUo 🚗

16/06/2026

⚠️ Euro NCAP introduces crash protection to its van testing ⚠️

Commercial vans are an essential part of Europe’s transport network, and Euro NCAP has been testing them since 2021. In 2026, Euro NCAP's work moves up a gear with the introduction of Crash Protection to the assessment programme, allowing a more complete picture of a van's safety performance. 🛡️💥

The updated protocol brings together the four stages of safety: Safe Driving, Crash Avoidance, Crash Protection, and Post-Crash Safety, delivering an overall understanding of how vans perform in real-world conditions. It also reflects Euro NCAP’s wider approach to encouraging safer design, better standard fitment, and stronger protection in commercial vehicles that protects everyone on the road. With Euro NCAP's trusted star rating, fleet organisations can now also understand more clearly what keeps their drivers and other road users safe. 🚐🛣️

The new programme includes driver monitoring, speed assistance, lane support, automatic emergency braking, vulnerable road user protection, frontal and side impact assessment, and post-crash rescue information. This approach is designed to reflect the real-world risks vans face and encourage manufacturers to make advanced safety systems standard across the commercial market and in line with the technologies available for passenger cars. 👀🔧

This is a major milestone for van safety. Commercial vehicles keep the economies of Europe moving every day and should be held to the highest safety standards. 🌍

Interested in van safety? Visit https://commercial-vehicles.euroncap.com/ now. 🚚

05/05/2026

⭐🚛 Safer Trucks for Better Business🚛⭐

Trucks don’t just carry goods. They carry risk. Compromise on safety, and you risk lives, liability, and your business. ⭐🚚

From Safe Driving (visibility, driver monitoring), to Crash Avoidance (AEB, VRU protection, system performance), and Post-Crash Safety (rescue information and accessibility), the Stages of Safety framework for the Safer Trucks programme sets a clear benchmark for what five stars really means: zero accidents on the road. 🛣️

At this year’s Commercial Vehicle Show in the UK, Matthew Avery, Euro NCAP Director of Strategic Development, talks to:
🗣️ Mark Cartwright, National Highways
🗣️ Stephen Blackmore, Turners (Soham) Ltd.
🗣️ Phil Rootham, Scania UK
About what a safe truck does for their cause, fleets, and business.

The message is simple: safer trucks, safer fleets, better business. Lower risk, reduced downtime, improved driver conditions, and stronger brand protection start by getting safety right. 💡

🎥 Watch the full video here 👉 https://youtu.be/q28E228ckq0?si=qPidVbrCHrrEwwfl 🚛

Interested in truck & van safety? Go to https://commercial-vehicles.euroncap.com/ now. 🚛

Trucks don’t just carry goods. They carry risk. When something goes wrong, the consequences are severe for drivers, other road users, and businesses alike. T...

22/04/2026

⭐ Euro NCAP drives change as more trucks achieve five stars than ever before ⭐

Euro NCAP’s latest Safer Trucks results show clear progress across the industry, with six out of eight trucks achieving the maximum five-star safety rating, more than double the number seen at the start of testing in 2024. Matthew Avery, Director of Strategic Development, presents these results during a presentation on truck safety at the National Highways Driver Safety Theatre, in this year’s Commercial Vehicle Show in Birmingham (UK). Dr. Aled Williams, Programme Director, is also presenting a Commercial Vehicle update in Chongqing, China, at the test facility CAERI, both speakers highlighting how independent testing is driving real-world improvements in truck safety. 🚛

Leading the results is the Scania L-series, delivering an outstanding all-round performance, closely followed by the Mercedes-Benz Actros, Volvo FM, Scania P-series, and MAN TGM, all securing five stars. Each of the tested vehicles was awarded the CitySafe label, a marker of strong performance in protecting cyclists and pedestrians in cities, showing notable and impactful progress in Crash Avoidance technologies across the segment. 🛣️

Alongside the five-star performers, the Renault Trucks D Medium and DAF XD also demonstrated solid progress, achieving four- and three-star ratings respectively, both earning the CitySafe label while highlighting further opportunities to strengthen overall safety performance. An additional five-star rating and CitySafe label was achieved by Scania with a vehicle in the Utility sector.⚙️

“Five five-star trucks in one round of testing is a very welcome record. And it means fleet operators and their buyers have never had such a strong choice of safe trucks in the Regional Distribution sector. But there is a caveat: when ordering a new addition for fleets, buyers need to tick the right boxes for the equipment listed on the datasheet to ensure the best-possible safety. While it might be a slightly more expensive truck initially, it’s a price worth paying to protect your colleagues, other road users, and your brand’s reputation,” explains Matthew Avery, Director of Strategic Development at Euro NCAP. 📈

As Euro NCAP prepares to assess City Distribution trucks later this year, the trajectory is clear: safety is becoming a defining factor in commercial vehicle design and procurement. ✅

Read the full press release here 👉 https://bit.ly/2604EuroNCAPTrucksPR 🚚

Scania Group / Scania UK
Mercedes-Benz Trucks
Volvo Trucks
MAN Truck & Bus
Renault Trucks
DAF Trucks UK / DAF Trucks N.V.