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Originally Posted by jamesqf
I have real problems with anyone claiming that ANY car is a "death trap". I learned to drive in the late '60s, and have owned cars - all of them small - ranging from a '54 Sunbeam Alpine to a '60 Austin-Healey through the Honda CRX and my current Insight - not to mention a lot of motorcycles. I'm still here, alive & kicking, as are virtually all my contemporaries. If I look at the people a few years older than me, more died in Vietnam than in auto accidents.
On the other hand, my neighbors' granddaughter and her boyfriend were both killed a few weeks ago, when their big, safe new pickup went off the road and rolled.
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Let's see... U.S. Vietnam deaths: 58,198
Check out this chart:
Annual US Highway Fatalities from 1957
Almost the same number of people died on America's highways EVERY YEAR during the Vietnam era.
As far as the safety of larger vehicles, the stats don't lie. Physics doesn't lie. Based on IIHS stats (Number of deaths per million vehicles registered) you ar twice as likely to die in a small car than a large car, truck, or SUV.
People die in trucks and SUVs. Vehicles don't go off the road all by themselves and acoording to the DOT truck occupants are the least likely to be belted in.
