Honda Becomes World’s First Company to Earn FIA’s Highest 5-Star Road Safety Rating
Honda becomes the world’s first company to earn the FIA Road Safety Index’s highest 5-star products/services rating, marking a major milestone in global road safety.
Honda has achieved a major global road-safety milestone by becoming the world’s first company to receive the highest 5-star rating in the FIA Road Safety Index’s products/services assessment. The recognition was announced on 8 September 2026 and celebrated at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza in Italy during the FIA Formula One Italian Grand Prix. Developed by the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), the Road Safety Index enables companies and organisations to measure, manage and improve the impact their operations, products and services have on road safety. For Honda, the achievement carries particular importance because the assessment encompasses safety efforts involving both motorcycles and automobiles, supporting the company’s long-term ambition of creating a collision-free society for everyone sharing the road.
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Honda becomes the world’s first company to earn the FIA Road Safety Index’s highest 5-star products/services rating, marking a major milestone in global road safety.
Honda Moves From FIA’s Highest 3-Star Rating to the New 5-Star Standard
Honda’s latest achievement follows another milestone in February 2025, when it became the first automotive company to earn what was then the FIA Road Safety Index’s maximum 3-star rating, based on its Japanese operations. The FIA has since expanded the system from three to five stars and strengthened its methodology. While the original framework examined areas including corporate Commitment and Footprint, the new upper levels introduce additional assessment covering Planning, Monitoring of Safety Performance, Safety Culture Management and Supply Chain or Products/Services Coverage. The Index itself now contains two ratings: a supply-chain assessment covering activities from raw-material procurement through production and customer delivery, and a products/services assessment concentrating on product and service safety. It is in the latter category that Honda has now secured the maximum five stars.
Motorcycle and Automobile Safety Efforts Assessed Across 17 Countries
To meet the expanded requirements, Honda significantly broadened the scope of its assessment to 17 countries representing more than 90 per cent of its worldwide motorcycle and automobile sales volume. These markets included Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Türkiye, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Pakistan, the Philippines and Brazil. According to Honda, the FIA gave strong recognition to the company's overall Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) approach to safety. Particular strengths included long-term safety strategies involving senior management, global estimates and tracking of traffic-collision fatalities and injuries, monitoring through Honda's global safety council, widespread application of advanced safety technologies, efforts to build a company-wide safety culture and proactive disclosure of traffic-safety information.
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Honda becomes the world’s first company to earn the FIA Road Safety Index’s highest 5-star products/services rating, marking a major milestone in global road safety.
Honda Targets 50 Percent Fewer Traffic Fatalities by 2030
The five-star recognition also connects directly with Honda's broader “Safety for Everyone” philosophy. The company has set a target to reduce traffic-collision fatalities involving Honda motorcycles and automobiles worldwide by 50 per cent by 2030 compared with 2020, measured as fatalities per 10,000 units sold. Its longer-term and considerably more ambitious objective is to achieve zero traffic-collision fatalities involving Honda motorcycles and automobiles globally by 2050. Honda says achieving that goal involves more than producing vehicles equipped with safety technologies. Its strategy also includes promoting safer driving and riding practices, understanding how real-world collisions happen, tracking safety performance and using collision data to determine how technologies can be improved. Honda plans to continue verifying the effectiveness of its safety systems using real-world accident information as it works toward those targets.
Five Stars Mark an Important Step Toward Honda’s Collision-Free Vision
Both the FIA and Honda view the achievement as more than an award for an individual safety technology. FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem described road safety as a challenge requiring coordinated action across public and private sectors, while FIA Secretary General for Automobile Mobility, Sustainability and Tourism Willem Groenewald said the expanded Index is intended to make corporate road-safety performance measurable and accountable. Honda's Mikihito Kojima similarly stressed that the company's objective extends beyond making safer products to protecting customers and everyone else sharing the road. Becoming the first organisation to achieve the FIA Road Safety Index's new five-star products/services rating therefore represents an important benchmark, but Honda regards it as one stage in a much longer challenge—ultimately working toward a future where no one dies in a traffic collision involving a Honda motorcycle or automobile by 2050.