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Originally Posted by pagemap
See this quote from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety:
"...In crashes between cars and other passenger vehicles during 2000-01, almost 60 percent of the driver deaths in the cars struck on the driver side were hit by SUVs or pickups — up from about 30 percent during 1980-81."
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I have to question the validity of this study a bit--Since it's not reflected in the findings:
- what percentage of vehicles on the road are SUVs compared to passenger cars?
- What's the delta of SUVs in 2000 compared to 1980?
- Conversely, where was the call in 1980/81 to get passenger cars off the road? It seems to me that in 1980, 70% of driver deaths were caused by passenger cars.