Draft new Regulation prepared by the Informal Working Group on Frontal Impact to establish uniform provisions for the approval of passenger cars with regard to their occupant-restraint system performance in the event of a frontal collision.

Proposal from the Informal Working Group on Frontal Impact to increase the stringency of the Thorax Compression Criterion (ThCC) for the Hybrid III 5th female dummy in the passenger seat to 34 mm under the proposed new regulation to test the performance of occupant restraint systems in the event of a frontal collision. The transition date would be 1 September 2020.