05-29-2020, 10:31 PM
hal wrote:
[quote=Death rates are per million registered vehicle years, as indicated.
Cars: 48
Minivans: 22
SUVs: 25
Pickup trucks: 29]
I can explain this... teenagers...
Teens wouldn't be caught dead in a minivan... the SUV and Pickup belongs to mom and Dad and NO WAY do they let the kid drive their vehicle. That leaves cars...
'Honey, we need a cheap car for the kid'
'Ok, what's the cheapest car out there?'
There is that, but in very small cars where things are packed in pretty tightly to fit within a given footprint crush space is at a minimum. Or, as a wise man once put it back in the 1970s "You have a wreck in a Cadillac, it happens 'out there' somewhere. You have a wreck in a Toyota, it happens right in your face!".