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Originally Posted by IamIan
Unfortunately I don't see that link addressing those other issues ... it only looks at reported accidents ... not the non-reported non-accidents because the more agile vehicle was able to avoid the accident or stop sooner ... I've seen other studies make other similar types of comparisons ... but you can't compare against the data you don't have ... ie the accidents that were avoided , and thus never reported.
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well according to this, which is based on deaths per vehicle registered
( which would nullify any arguments that smaller cars have an advantage of avoiding an accident )
http://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/rul...kshop-Lund.pdf
1) (page 13) Occupants of the smallest and/or lightest vehicles still have death rates about twice as high as occupants of the largest and/or heaviest vehicles
2) (page 16) Occupants of heavier vehicles typically will benefit from greater effective momentum
3) (page 17) Smaller vehicles are involved in more crashes (not fewer, as some have hypothesized)
4) (page 24) We will be ok if we let data on what works –not wishful thinking- guide our strategies.
5) graph on page 11 attached