[jamesqf]

Originally Posted by ConnClark

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

You have, however, completely missed a very important point. Notice that what's being shown in all those graphs are DRIVER DEATHS, when we should instead be looking at TOTAL DEATHS. The Wenzel & Ross paper does just this, and comes to an entirely different set of conclusions.