More than 25 years ago, PETA’s intense campaign against General Motors essentially ended the automotive industry’s cruel practice of smashing live animals into walls at high speeds as part of deadly and barbaric car-crash tests. It was junk science then, and it’s junk science now.

Even so, in China—despite the existence of sophisticated animal-free models—experimenters continue to fasten abused, frightened animals into car seats and crash them into walls until their bodies are bloody, bruised, and mangled.

PETA contacted the nation’s Research Institute for Traffic Medicine and Daping Hospital to urge them to stop using live animals in crude car-crash tests. No regulations exist there that would require such horrific experiments to be performed.

Live pigs and dogs are pulverized in these tests, leaving them with broken bones and severe internal injuries before they’re killed and dissected.

Based on their own publications, it’s clear that China’s Research Institute for Traffic Medicine and Daping Hospital have conducted the following violent experiments:

Experimenters forced dogs onto an L-shaped rigid seat in a human sitting position using cloth restraints. They then affixed a disc to their heads with a steel wire rope, sewed sensors into their heads, held their heads up by their ears, dropped a hammer to hit the disc (causing the dogs’ heads to violently thrust backwards and resulting in whiplash, limping, and difficulty in moving hind limbs), and killed and dissected them.

Experimenters tied live pigs to a metal sled for eight hours without providing them with water or food, screwed a metal block into their pelvis, inserted electrodes into their abdomen, slammed them into a wall—which caused multiple fractures and severe injuries to the animals’ spine, pelvis, and internal organs—and killed and dissected them.

Experimenters starved pigs for 24 hours, deprived them of water for six hours, strapped them into a car seat with seat belts and ropes, slammed them into a wall—which caused them to sustain severe fractures, contusions, and lacerations; caused bleeding of their internal organs; and resulted in immediate death for half the animals used—and then dissected them.

Using sentient animals in car-crash tests is cruel, archaic, and unjustifiable.

Pigs and dogs are fundamentally anatomically different from humans. Car companies figured out years ago that these kind of experiments are worthless and tell us nothing about a human experience in a car crash.

These days, companies use advanced technology—such as clinical human studies, advanced computer modeling, 3-D medical imaging, and sophisticated manikins—for their car-crash research. Other researchers have also used human cadavers and virtual reality (digital crash dummies) for the same purpose. In the 21st century, every car company on the planet should already have adopted these methods.

Help PETA Prevent Dogs and Other Animals From Being Used in Lethal Experiments

PETA continues to work to end these abhorrent car-crash tests on dogs and pigs. When it comes to feeling joy, cherishing life, and experiencing pain, other animals are just like us.

So imagine the hellish reality that millions of animals experience every day inside laboratories. They’re mutilated, force-fed drugs, burned, drowned, and tormented in other unspeakable ways before ultimately being killed. Please click on the link below and take a stand against animal testing today: