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Old 08-31-2008, 10:45 AM   #28 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Formula413 View Post
This fails to take into account the increased ability of a smaller vehicle to avoid an accident altogether.
This list is based on fatalities per number of vehicles registered not fatalities per accident. So that would be taken into account after all. It would also take into account the ability of the average driver to utilize this ability.

small and light does not equal safe Q.E.D.
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