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AP Photo released by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows a crash test of a 2004-05 Kia Spectra, manufactured after November 2003. (AP Photo/ Insurance Institute for Highway Safety) |
The institute's latest status report of driver deaths released Thursday shows about 125,000 occupants of passenger vehicles died in crashes during 2002-05. The risk of death to vehicle occupants and drivers, the latter of which comprise most of the fatalities, the report says, can vary between the type and body style (2-door car, 4-door SUV) and the vehicle's size.
Of the 15 vehicles with the lowest driver death rates listed in the report, none are small models. And as would follow, 11 of the 16 vehicles with the highest death rates are small models -- and none classified as large or very large.
The general rule of thumb being: the heavier and larger the vehicle, the safer its occupants will be when in an accident.
Although there are exceptions to this rule.
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Researchers at the institute computed driver death rates in all crashes and in multiple-vehicle, single-vehicle, and single-vehicle rollover crashes for 202 passenger vehicle models (2001-04) with at least 120,000 registered years or 20 driver deaths during the study years (2002-05). The average rate in this study of 2001-04 models during 2002-05 was 79 per million registered vehicles years.
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