You also have to consider, as Ryland started to point out, that highway safety is a collective thing. Indeed, I'd guess that for most of us here (being that we are better than average drivers), our safety depends much less on what we choose to drive, than on what the guy that hits us is driving. That is to say, whatever I'm driving, my chances are a lot better if the other guy is driving a Smart rather than a Suburban.
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