I'm not on a mission. I just wanted to read up on the topic, which I did this morning, and post a comment. Your examples that you posted are possibly exceptions and not the norm. I'm sure these people consider themselves very lucky. Some people may interpret your posts as saying the Insight is abnormally safe.

The truth is, at only 13,500 Insights made, it is tough to get a good statistical number. (NHTSA reports deaths per million). In the case of a rare car like the Insight, it is tough to judge its safety based upon statistics. All I did was compare the crash ratings of the Insight to those of other cars in its class and then I compared some death statistics from the Insight's class versus other classes. Really, I did not even compare--I just presented the data. I did not mean to offend and made a point to keep the post as factual as possible.

The subject of the post is "How safe is the Insight?" I thought my posts have offered good information to help answer that question. Your posts on the two Insight crashes are anecdotal evidence. I really do not think anecdotal evidence can answer a question like "How Safe is the Insight?". However, I did not comment on those posts and just decided to try and post some other viewpoints as politely as possible.

BTW, I did notice the truck safety and found it quite interesting. I wasn't going to comment on it on this thread because it was off topic. However, I had thought about posting on the new thread "The Plot Against Small Cars"over on CleanMPG. I thought it was relevant to the original post and your comment about the popularity of pickup trucks.

If I had an Insight at my disposal, I would drive it whenever I could. However, this would not be very often because I almost always have at least one of my kids with me and neither of them are old enough to sit in the front seat. I have nothing against its safety.