According to the all-knowing Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (they know all, aince they pay the claims) the Volvo 850-V70 has an injury claims history of 47% of the average vehicle.

http://www.carsafety.org/vehicle_ratings/ictl/ictl_wagon.htm

The 4-wd Dodge Durango TRUCK has a claims history of 73% of the average vehicle. Both are better than average, the Volvo because it was designed to be safe including the dynamic safety parameters of handling, acceleration and braking, the Durango because it is a tall, heavy truck, not a car.

I use injuries rather than deaths in comparison because there aren't enough deaths in Volvo wagons to reach statistical significance.

In a collision between a light car and a heavy truck, the truck wins. Physics 101. Nothing Volvo can do will alter the laws of physics.

Film director Alan Pakula died in 1998 in his Volvo (looked like a 945 or 965) on the Long Island Expressway when a piple lying on the road was thrown through his windshield. What could Volvo do to prevent THAT?

http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9811/19/pakula.obit.02/

-Punxsutawney Phil