§ Mr. Llew SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport what is his policy towards the use by(a) the Transport Research Laboratory or (b) any other transport research centres funded by his Department of human corpses in car crash tests.
§ Mr. KeyThe Department has never carried out car crash tests using human corpses. Crash tests are a widely used techique to establish the safety of vehicle designs, but the United Kingdom always uses instrumented mannequins or dummies to measure the impact forces on the occupants. The Department is aware that tests using human corpses are carried out in a number of countries, but not in the United Kingdom. The information derived from them is available worldwide.