Tests with conventional cars at a nominal impact speeds of 8, 16 and 24 km/h showed that while the adult pedestrian folded over on to the bonnet before falling off, the child was knocked down. Reducing the height of the bonnet sufficiently to pick up the child causes the adult to strike the windscreen. The simplest method of reducing pedestrian injury is to adopt a front-end which provides optimum trajectories for the adult, and to provide suitable energy absorbing designs for the leading edge of the bonnet and the front face of the bumper. To pick up both child and adult dummies on the bonnet and retain them requires a sloped front-end and a device which positively lifts the child at low impact speeds. An experimental front-end and cather has been developed for the purpose which performs satisfactorily at impact speeds up to 16 km/h.