Nobody here is going to trust a lobbying group funded by neocons to preach SUV safety. So I will point to THE definitive guide in auto safety – the IIHS.
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Seventy-one percent of passenger vehicle occupants killed in 2006 were drivers; 70 percent of these drivers were males. Thirty-three percent of passenger vehicle occupants killed in 2006 were younger than 25 and 12% were >70. Mmm, men drive bigger cars and yet 70% of deaths.
Occupant deaths per million registered passenger vehicles 1-3 years old, 1978-2006 pickup are worse than cars or suvs. No surprise since pickups have worst safety eqpmt.
Note that Excursions have very high roller deaths.
Safest are minivans, larger suvs and luxury cars per million registered vehicles. Authors state they have attempted to normalize for females drivers, but not for other demographics. Not normalized for miles driven, bet the bigger SUVs, etc are driven less and by older drivers. So 750iL is among the safest, but those stupid liberal males cant afford them!! HA, HA!
The risk of dying in a crash at night is nearly three times the risk of dying in daylight hours. In 1998, about 27,000 people died in nighttime traffic crashes in the United States, even though only about 25 percent of travel is at night. http://www.usroads.com/journals/rmej/0109/rm010902.htm
So heres the lessons to be safe, let the females drive (>21, <65), dont drive at night, drive in a SUV limo. We neocons laugh at those stupid libs getting back from their quickmart jobs in their yugos, less taxes for us when they roll aside.
