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Experts say improving womens road safety is more complicated than just adding a female crash-test dummy to safety tests.

Female crash test dummies may help address the fact that women are twice as likely to die in car crashes.

Women are twice as likely to die in car crashes because their body types have never been used in safety tests.

Crash tests are designed to keep us safe. So why are women dying more on the roads compared to men? See how a local lab is putting the focus on females.

Amid inflation and rising national debt, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is asking Congress to spend $20 million to develop female crash dummies for car testing as part of his department's 2024 proposed budget.

Answer: Because there aren’t any good female crash dummies.

Dozens of Democratic lawmakers also sent a letter to the Department of Transportation in February, writing “the absence of female crash test dummies in the current crash test system” needs to change.

Also: The Federal Aviation Administration has admitted fault for an unnecessary evacuation of the Capitol complex.

Revising federal crash test standards and updating test dummies to mimic a wider variety of bodies could save thousands of lives each year.

The group Verity Now is urging the Biden Administration to bring equity and equality to the government’s 5-star safety rating program.