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A road safety organisation in Australia has a mock-up of the perfect body to a car crash. Australia's Transport Accident Commission (TAC) has its human-looking creation 'Graham'. TAC a sculpture of Graham and a video to educate road users about road safety. Although Graham is humanesque, he somewhat grotesque in parts and a character from a horror movie. The BBC says: "He has a head shaped like a boulder, feet snarled like tree roots and a chest like a wrinkled battering ram." A spokesperson from TAC said Graham was to highlight how frail and vulnerable the human body is when in a vehicle collision on the roads.

TAC commissioned celebrated artist Patricia Piccinini to the artwork for Graham. She with a leading trauma surgeon and a road crash investigation expert to the right look and build for Graham. She gave Graham a thick skull, a wider neck, an inflatable chest that like airbags, and hoof-like legs that Graham to jump out of dangerous situations. TAC chief executive Joe Calafiore on why his organisation commissioned Graham as an educational tool. He said: "Cars have a lot faster than humans and Graham helps us why we need to every aspect of our roads system to ourselves from our own mistakes."