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Originally Posted by bschloop
Found a study that seems sound. It seems that you are technically "safer" in the average SUV than in the average economy car, but midsize and larger cars are "safer" than SUVs. The big difference is that an SUV is much more likely to kill the person in the other vehicle. Oh, and pickup trucks are death traps. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc...0.1.1.186.5839 you have to download the entire |
The data is approaching 20 years old but interesting non-the-less. Looks like trucks and suv's are safer in 2 vehicle crashes (study does not consider who is at-fault) and more likely to kill the driver of the car.
Considering how trucks performed so poorly in this study i think it is due to the way trucks are used and the author describes that.