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Originally Posted by dem45133
I can see these effects adding up... but all the way to 3x. Big doesn't matter on handling if your used to it... most of us that have them are... so why?
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If I had to guess - and of course a guess is all it is - I'd say it's mostly design: high center of gravity, light on the rear, etc. Bet you'd find a lot of those fatalities were single vehicle rollovers. (It'd be interesting to know the rates for stock vs lifted/big tires, too.) Then I'd add in a helping of driver attitude, a lot of which is (again!) the mistaken belief that big equals safe.
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If its 3x in these conditions for pickups... it must be even more for the little cars...
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There you go again, letting feelings run ahead of the data. It doesn't have to be more for small cars, and probably isn't, as the difference in the pickup/car ratios between city & rural driving isn't anywhere near 3x. You also have to think about the crashes that didn't happen: e.g. the small car that didn't go off the road where a pickup would have, because it handles better.