MIKE Hunter's smaller car thesis??
larry moe 'n curly wrote:
> 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.
I don't think anyone has done the study that accounts for demographic
factors.
Jeff
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