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Old 09-18-2012, 05:43 PM   #9 (permalink)
dkunitz
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Originally Posted by Ryland View Post
About ten years back I read about a study that listed a number of vehicles that had the highest number of deaths per 10,000 vehicles on the road and the vehicles that had the lowest number of deaths
Just look at the poor pickup drivers and who they may crash into:


Study: An Analysis of Traffic Deaths by Vehicle Type and Model (PDF)
From the abstract: Two risks are evaluated: the risk to the driver of the vehicle model in question in all types of crashes and the risk to the drivers of other vehicles involved in crashes with the model in question.
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