{
  "id": 8897620,
  "title": "Honda earns FIA’s first-ever five-star road safety rating, setting global benchmark",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/honda-earns-fias-first-ever-five-star-road-safety-rating-setting",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-21T09:08:49.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Gulf News",
    "slug": "gulf-news",
    "url": "https://gulfnews.com/auto/honda-earns-fias-first-ever-five-star-road-safety-rating-setting-global-benchmark-1.500677819"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Honda has become the first company to receive the FIA's top five-star rating on the Road Safety Index, setting a global benchmark in road safety. This achievement, recognized at the FIA Formula One Italian Grand Prix in Italy, underscores Honda's ongoing commitment to reducing traffic fatalities and creating safer mobility worldwide. The FIA Road Safety Index now includes five stars, with added modules for planning, monitoring safety performance, and safety culture management. Honda's enhanced assessment covered 17 countries representing over 90% of its global sales. Honda's dedication to safety is evident through its top management involvement, tracking of traffic collision fatalities and injuries, monitoring progress towards safety goals, implementation of advanced safety technologies, and fostering a safety culture. A notable initiative by Honda and its distributor, Al-Futtaim Honda, is a pioneering safety training program for delivery riders in the UAE, held at the Dubai Autodrome Circuit.",
  "summary": "Honda has become the first company to receive the new highest rating of five stars on the FIA Road Safety Index, which reinforces its commitment to measuring, improving and expanding its road safety footprint. For Honda, this achievement is not simply a recognition of what has been accomplished, but a reflection of an ongoing responsibility: to use its technology, products and global expertise to…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}