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[dan charlson <charlson AT mindspring.com>]

on 3/6/02 1:35 PM, Michael Czeiszperger wrote:
>There's two interesting reports on vehicle safety as related to vehicle 
>weight at:
>
>http://www.hwysafety.org/safety_facts/compat.htm

Those are interesting sets of numbers, thanks.


>cars are safer overall than SUVs.

Yeah, maybe according to their overall statistics, though I read 
something in that report that said something like for all crashes with 
other vehicles, the overall relative risk for people in cars is about 
4-to-1. Looks like most of the SUV deaths come in single-vehicle 
rollovers (which probably has a lot to do with people not knowing how to 
deal with the higher center of gravity in those things).

However, if I'm going to be in a crash, it's obvious to me that I'd 
rather be in the Explorer than in the Miata! (Actually, if I got to pick 
my personal "I'm gonna be in a crash" vehicle, it'd be a big heavy 
Benz... ;-)




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