Fatality Rates Fall in SUV versus Cars

Crashes involving sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks are less likely to result in fatalities to occupants of cars and minivans, according to a study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

Accidents involving the big vehicles and cars and minivans in the past were more likely to kill the occupants of the smaller vehicles than crashes between autos of the same class and weight segments. But that’s no longer the case because of improved crash protection in cars and minivans.

Safety features such as side air bags and stronger auto structures, as well as newer designs of SUVs and pickups that better align front-end energy-absorbing portions of the vehicles with similar sections in cars, have reduced deaths.

Full article; http://latimesblogs.latimes.com

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