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Old 11-19-2023, 04:59 PM   #25 (permalink)
Isaac Zachary
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Another reason to doubt the safety of large SUV's.

We're now at the 10th person who has been ran over by an SUV or pickup in the neighborhood since I moved here in 2011. 5 of them died from the accident. People keep running over other people, including their own kids.

Doing some research it was a lot safer to be a pedestrian back in 2009. Your chances of being ran over as a pedestrian back then was 1.3 in 100,000. Now it's up to 2.2 (at least it was in 2021, if the trend has continued it is now higher.) https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality...il/pedestrians

The reason why more people are getting ran over is that SUV's and pickups have become more popular. Statistically you are 80% more likely to run over someone walking along the road in a Pickup, and 61% more likely in an SUV, than in a car. https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/suv...-while-turning
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