Big cars kill. They kill because their bumpers don’t line up with sedans and station wagons. They kill because they have stiff frames and they kill because they’re heavier. For every 450 kilograms added to the weight of a car , a vehicle becomes 40 per cent more likely to turn an otherwise survivable crash into a fatal collision.
For years, automobile safety researchers had focused mostly on which vehicles were best at keeping their occupants alive. “I thought, what if we turned this on its head and found the most lethal vehicles out there?” says Gabler by phone from his office at Virginia Tech.Article content In Montreal, scientists sifted through data on three million Canadian crashes and found driving an SUV instead of a car makes a driver 224 per cent more likely to cause a fatal crash. A study from the University of California, San Diego, meanwhile, found every life saved in a large vehicle came at the expense of 4.3 dead pedestrians, motorcyclists and car drivers.
The sentiment comes up often in online debates over automobile safety. “I care most about the people in MY vehicle,” reads one forum post by an SUV driver, saying they are only trying to protect their family from “moronic drivers Facebooking their way to oblivion.” On another forum, a driver claims, “My SUV protects me from the actions of IDIOTS.” Part of this is because few drivers think they will be the ones to cause a collision.
And the safety disparity goes up precipitously when it comes to aftermarket modifications, such as lift kits and oversized tires.
This article just convinced me even more on why trucks are better, and why more people should own them
ANOTHER SKEWED LINE OF LIES BY A REPORTER WHO TELLS ONLY A PARTIAL PICTURE TO.MAKE A PICKUP LOOK BAD
TristinHopper where ever your stats came from they are skewed and don't tell the whole picture when comes to fatalities and vehilcles...
OK let's not blame trucks, blame stupid drivers, but stupid drivers drive cars too!
First guns now trucks.
Pick up trucks don't kill people it's the people driving vehicles that can kill people. Maybe it is time to realize that actual driver education and retraining is the problem not a specific type of vehicle. A honda civic doing 60 km/h still can kill people.
Being in a very small car will get you killed with all these bigger cars driving around. Everyone was riding a bike, we wouldn't be killing each other but that isn't going to happen
My Tacoma TRD off road is the best vehicle I have ever owned. After 3 years, I could sell it today for 95% of its original sale price, and it would take less than an hour to find a willing buyer.
Marijuana kills people too, and it’s legal
They aren’t even trying anymore.
The high-quality 'journalism' that only $100,000+ per week in government subsidies/bribes can buy.
It would be less of a problem if they used them for truck things. Most people with pickups use them like a cross between a minivan and a sports car.
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