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Road safety is becoming a strategic issue for sustainable development of India. Increasing vehicle population and low road density (India has 2.56 km road/thousand population and 768 km road/thousand km2 of total land.) are aggravating the problem. Introduction of modern safety features in small cars are inevitable to improve the safety scenario. Recently Anti-lock Braking System (ABS) has been started to be introduced in low segment family cars. But still the effect of ABS, fitted on these cars, in reducing the road accident are debatable and in-depth studies are required in this field. A thorough investigation of usefulness of ABS on Indian road condition took place in this paper. An instrumented vehicle has been used to study the braking performance of a small family vehicle with ABS ON and OFF condition on two different types of road surfaces, namely dry and wet. In addition to the vehicle performance the focus has been given to the vehicle stability criteria.