Creta Safety Rating
Creta safety rating, as on 1 November 2026: Bharat NCAP has not crash-tested the Creta on sale today, nor the Creta N Line or the Creta EV (Hyundai's Creta Electric), so none of them has a Bharat NCAP result. The last NCAP crash test of a Creta sold in India, Global NCAP's of 12 April 2022, gave the car sold before the January 2024 facelift, in its base specification with two airbags, 3 stars for adult occupants and 3 stars for children. Today's Creta has six airbags on every variant.
The Creta features and specifications give every variant six airbags and disc brakes at all four wheels; cameras and ADAS come with higher trims.
Creta NCAP rating: Bharat, Global, ASEAN and Latin NCAP
Bharat NCAP, India's own crash test programme, lists no Creta; the Hyundai models it has tested are the Venue and the Tucson. Global NCAP, ASEAN NCAP and Latin NCAP have each tested a different Creta. Global NCAP in 2022 tested the Creta sold in India before the January 2024 facelift; ASEAN NCAP in 2022, the Creta built in Indonesia for Southeast Asia (the Active variant); Latin NCAP in 2015, the first Creta, built in India for Latin America.
| Programme | Car tested | Result | For the Creta sold in India now? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bharat NCAPas on 1 November 2026 | No Creta, Creta N Line or Creta EV | Not tested | No result yet |
| Global NCAP12 April 2022 | Creta sold in India before the January 2024 facelift; its most basic safety specification: two frontal airbags and ABS | Adult occupants 3 stars (8.00 of 17); child occupants 3 stars (28.29 of 49) | No |
| ASEAN NCAP2022 | Creta built in Indonesia for Southeast Asia (the Active variant) | 5 stars overall (75.78 points); adult occupants 34.72 points; child occupants 15.56 points | No |
| Latin NCAP15 December 2015 | First Creta, built in India for Latin America | Adult occupants 4 stars; child occupants 3 stars | No |
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Creta Global NCAP rating: 3 stars in 2022
Global NCAP published the result on 12 April 2022: 3 stars for adult occupant protection, 8.00 points of 17, and 3 stars for child occupant protection, 28.29 of 49. The car was the Creta sold before the January 2024 facelift, tested in its most basic safety specification: two frontal airbags and ABS. At the time, its test was a frontal crash at 64 km/h; side impact, electronic stability control and pedestrian protection were not part of it.
| Equipment | Creta tested in 2022 | Every Creta on sale now |
|---|---|---|
| Driver and front passenger airbags | Yes | Yes |
| Side airbags | No | Yes |
| Curtain airbags | No | Yes |
| Electronic stability control | No | Yes |
| ABS | Yes | Yes |
| ISOFIX child seat anchorages | No | Yes |
| Three-point seat belts in every seat | No | Yes, all seats |
| Seat belt reminders | Driver and front passenger | Yes, all seats |
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Every item the tested car lacked is standard on today's Creta, from the E up. No NCAP test of the Creta now sold in India has measured the difference.
Why is Creta not 5 star?
Because the India-built Creta Global NCAP tested in 2022 had an unstable bodyshell, gave marginal protection to the driver's chest and both front occupants' knees and left a 3-year-old's head exposed in its child seat. The Creta sold today has not been tested at all. For adults (3 stars), Global NCAP also found the footwell unstable and the bodyshell unable to take further loads. For children (3 stars), the 3-year-old dummy's seat was forward-facing, held by the adult belt, and the dummy's chest protection was poor; the car had no ISOFIX anchorages as standard; and the rear centre seat had only a lap belt.
The Creta with 5 stars that turns up in searches is ASEAN NCAP's 2022 result, 75.78 points under its 2021–2025 rating protocol, for the Creta built in Indonesia; it says nothing about a car built in India.
Creta airbags and safety equipment by trim
Every Creta, the E included, has six airbags: driver, front passenger, two side and two curtain airbags. The other 21 items below are standard on every variant too. One of them is tyre pressure monitoring; Hyundai's cold pressure for the 16- and 17-inch tyres is 33 psi with up to three people on board (Creta tyre size and pressure). Higher trims add cameras, sensors and, on the King, the ADAS functions.
- Airbag - Driver & passenger
- Airbag - Side & curtain
- ABS(Anti-lock braking system) with EBD
- Electronic stability control (ESC)
- Vehicle stability management (VSM)
- Hill start assist control (HAC)
- Tyre pressure monitoring system (TPMS) Highline
- Rear disc brakes
- Seat belt pretensioners - driver & passenger
- Driver anchor pretensioner
- Height adjustable front seat belts
- 3 Point seat belts (all seats)
- Seatbelt reminder (all seats)
- ISOFIX
- Emergency stop signal (ESS)
- Impact sensing auto door unlock
- Speed sensing auto door lock
- Inside door override (Driver only)
- Immobilizer
- Burglar alarm
- Central Locking
- Headlamp escort function
- Rear parking sensors
| Trim | From (₹) | Safety equipment added |
|---|---|---|
| E | 10,90,700 | The list above; Inside rear - Day and night mirror |
| EX | 12,06,700 | Nothing more |
| EX(O) | 13,14,200 | Rear camera with dynamic guidelines |
| S(O) | 14,20,700 | Automatic headlamps; Rear defogger with timer; Driver rear view monitor (DRVM); Dash cam |
| SX | 15,04,400 | Driver Power window with auto up down and safety; Inside rear - Day and night mirror with telematics switches; Puddle lamps with welcome function - Driver side |
| SX Premium | 16,34,200 | Front Parking sensors; Surround view monitor (SVM); Blind-spot view monitor (BVM) |
| King | 17,27,800 | Inside rear - Electro chromic mirror (ECM) with telematics switches; Puddle lamps with welcome function - Passenger side; Level 2 ADAS (17 functions) |
| King Lounge | 19,21,700 | Nothing more |
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Front, side and curtain airbags
Creta ADAS: which variants have it and what it includes
Level 2 ADAS comes only on the King, King Lounge and King Knight trims. Of the two Knight editions, which come in their own set of Creta colours, only the King Knight has it. The lowest-priced Creta with it is the King 1.5 MPi Petrol 6-speed MT, at ₹17,27,800 ex-showroom. The King's list has 17 ADAS functions, from forward collision warning to rear cross-traffic collision-avoidance assist. Smart cruise control with stop and go is extra on the King trims, and only with an automatic gearbox; a manual King keeps ordinary cruise control. The Creta N Line has it on its N10 trim and the Creta EV has it on its Excellence, Excellence Lounge and Excellence Knight trims.
| Model | Trims with ADAS | Lowest-priced with ADAS | Ex-showroom (₹) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creta17 functions | King, King Lounge, King Knight | King 1.5 MPi Petrol 6-speed MT | 17,27,800 |
| Creta N Line17 functions | N10 | N10 1.5 Turbo GDi Petrol 6-speed MT | 19,03,300 |
| Creta EV18 functions | Excellence, Excellence Lounge, Excellence Knight | Excellence 42 kWh battery | 21,30,500 |
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- Forward Collision Warning (FCW)
- Forward Collision - Avoidance Assist - Car (FCA-Car)
- Forward Collision - Avoidance Assist - Pedestrian (FCA-Ped)
- Forward Collision - Avoidance Assist - Cycle (FCA-Cyl)
- Forward Collision - Avoidance Assist - Junction Turning (FCA-JT)
- Forward Collision - Avoidance Assist - Direct Oncoming (FCA-DO)
- Blind-spot Collision Warning (BCW)
- Blind-spot Collision - Avoidance Assist (BCA)
- Lane Keeping Assist (LKA)
- Lane Departure Warning (LDW)
- Driver Attention Warning (DAW)
- Safe Exit Warning (SEW)
- Lane Following Assist (LFA)
- High Beam Assist (HBA)
- Leading Vehicle Departure Alert (LVDA)
- Rear Cross - Traffic Collision Warning (RCCW)
- Rear Cross - Traffic Collision - Avoidance Assist (RCCA)
Forward collision-avoidance assist, one of the ADAS functions
Creta safety rating for the N Line and the Creta EV
Bharat NCAP has not tested the Creta N Line and Creta EV either. Both have six airbags as standard, and every Creta EV also has hill descent control and an electric parking brake with auto hold. As on 1 November 2026, no Creta safety rating from Bharat NCAP or Global NCAP covers the Creta, Creta N Line or Creta EV on sale.