Safest Suvs 2011 List
Study discovers automobiles growing to be less secure than SUVs
A new study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that SUVs are some of the safest cars that individuals can possibly get. Modern SUVs are so much safer than the roll-prone, top-heavy models of years past, thanks to electronic stability controls. Source for this article – Study finds SUVs safer than smaller cars in auto accidents by Car Deal Expert.
Most unsafe automobile is the Nissan 350Z
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety recently released a study concerning collision safety, as reported by USA Today, and the findings show some vehicles are getting safer. When it comes to safety, some classes of automobiles are better than others. The rates of death vary quite a bit between automobiles though. Crash data was measured in death per million. That means the number of deaths that happened for every million automobiles made in a certain number of model years. For every million model years registered, there were 143 fatalities in the Nissan 350Z. That means it was the most dangerous of vehicles. The IIHS report wasn’t all bad. The death rates were shown to be going down. The death rate was 48 per million from 2005 to 2008 which went down from 2002 to 2005 to 79.
Safety from electronics
SUVs are growing to be a less dangerous vehicle class, since the launch of electronic stability controls, or ESC. The death rate dropped from 82 per million to 28 per million. That was the rate from 1999 to 2002 before the 2002 to 2005 rate. Recently, ESC became much more common in SUVs. As of 2012, it will be required in all automobiles, Automobile magazine explains. The death rates also have three types of accidents they are listed by. Multi-vehicle, single vehicle and single vehicle rollovers are the types. The safest class included minivans. There were only 25 fatalities per million, and they were mostly multi-vehicle accidents. SUVs, from little to full size, had fewer deaths per million in automobiles with four-wheel drive. Pickup trucks had an overall rate of 52 deaths per million, though trucks with four-wheel drive had lower rates of fatality than those without. Single automobile accidents were where the highest truck death rate occurred.
Vehicles are typically dangerous
Vehicles had the highest death rates, with an overall rate of 56 fatalities per million, mostly from multi-vehicle collisions. Little four-door cars, mini and mid-size sports cars had the highest rates, with death rates of 82, 83 and 80 deaths per million, respectively. The lowest death rate was in large luxury cars. There were 24 per million deaths with them. Foreign automobiles were among the most dependable. The Ford Edge SUV was the only American vehicle in the seven vehicles that had a zero death rate. The other six were the Land Rover Range Rover Sport and LR3, the Nissan Motors Armada, the Audi A6 four-door 4WD, Mercedes E Class four-door 4WD and the Toyota Sienna. The vehicles with the highest death rates besides the Nissan Motors 350Z with 143 deaths per million, were the Nissan Motors Titan crew cab with 126, Chevrolet Aveo with 119 and Chevy Cobalt with 117.
Information from
USA Today
usatoday.com/money/autos/2011-06-09-suv-crash-death-rates-drop_n.htm
Automobile Magazine
rumors.automobilemag.com/iihs-suvs-safer-cars-nissan-350z-titan-drivers-highest-fatality-rate-52041.html
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
iihs.org/externaldata/srdata/docs/sr4605.pdf
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Safest Suvs 2011 List