Watch This: Pile Up - The World's Biggest Crash Test

Virtuocity and our Group Lead, Prof Natasha Merat OBE were featured on a new Channel 4 documentary broadcast earlier this month. “Pile Up – The World’s Biggest Crash Test is the most ambitious experiment of its kind. Produced by Blink Films for Channel 4, unwitting members of the public join a high-speed pile-up as auto experts investigate car safety. Thanks to cutting edge engineering, no one is ever in danger." - Channel 4

Prof Merat was featured as one of the in-house experts, focusing on human factors, such as the commenting on the every day driving habits of the test subjects and how they reacted when faced with an unavoidable high speed pile up.

Prof Merat (centre) with the "Pile Up" test subjects

You can watch the whole documentary either on the Channel 4 Website here until the 15th July, Or on Youtube linked below.

You can find out more of the behind the scenes work on creating the experiment from our friends at Cranfield University here: https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/press/news-2025/inside-the-worlds-biggest-crash-test

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