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posted by  Sven's Maintainer on  Fri Apr 1 02:51 CST 2005
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My previous post - - -
"(quite safe by the IIHS Driver Fatality statistics, see www.iihs.org)"
actually meant "won the category by a mile".

For the statistics, go to
http://www.iihs.org/srpdfs/sr4003.pdf
covers 199-2002 models
and go to pages 6 and 7 for these small and mid-size SUV statistics:
- 4Runner: 12 deaths/million car-years
- Rav4: - - 18 deaths/million car-years
- Forester: 70 deaths/million car-years

What I like about the IIHS fatality stats is that they count fatalities per million registered car-years. (1/4 million cars registered for 2 years each = 1/2 million registered car-years.)

This is different from crash tests which attempt to predict what will happen in a crash (also worth studying).
A vehicle that inspires safer driving by the owner/driver, or inspires respect and avoidance from other vehicle's drivers, will have lower fatalities, and will do better in these statistics than simple crash tests will show.

Of course these statistics also include the "real world" crash tests that occur during accidents, and in far greater quantity and variety than is provided by the lab crash tests.






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