Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Bigger Cars Are Still Safer

According to recent crash statistics, bigger cars are still safer. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety:

The vehicles with the lowest death rates were the General Motors', Fortune 500) Chevrolet Astro van, the Infiniti G35 sedan, the BMW 7-series sedan and the Audi A4/S4 Quattro. The Astro, a full-sized van, had a death rate of 7 per million. The Audi A4/S4 had 14 deaths per million registered cars.

The vehicles with the highest fatality rates were 2-door, 2-wheel-drive versions of the Chevrolet Blazer small SUV, the Acura RSX small car, the Nissan 350Z sports car, the Kia Spectra compact car, the Pontiac Sunfire compact car and the Kia Rio subcompact car. Death rates for those cars ranged from 232 per million for the Blazer to 175 for the Rio.

Sources:
http://finance.yahoo.com/insurance/article/102881/car-crash-death-rates:-size-still-matters
http://www.cnn.com/2007/AUTOS/04/18/auto_death_rates/index.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/usnews/070419/070418_18carfeatures.html?.v=1&.pf=loans