GO Mavs wrote:

> "In the latest crash figures available from 2003, provided by the Insurance
> Institute for Highway Safety, there were 142 fatalities per million
> registered vehicles for the smallest cars. That figure drops to 108
> fatalities for the next larger class of cars. For large sedans, that number
> drops to 61 per million. For small SUVs, the figure was 75 deaths per
> million as compared with 62 for large SUVs. For pickups, totals increased to
> 124 per million for small trucks and 102 per million for large."
>
>
> Technically Mike is right, but the numbers are still so low that even a half
> a percent change is not very much.
>
> Secondly, there are more small cars on the road than larger cars.

But the statistics are for fatalities/vehicles. OTOH I want to know
how the numbers compare, once the number of miles and ages and incomes
of the drivers are considered.