A new U.S. study to be presented at an emergency medicine conference claims that the driver of an SUV is as much as 10 times more likely to survive in a head-on collision with a passenger car.
“The overwhelming majority of fatalities occur in the smaller and lighter of the two vehicles,” explains Dr. Dietrich Jehle, a professor of emergency medicine at New York’s Erie County Medical Center, and one of the authors of the new study conducted by the University of Buffalo.
If the passenger car has the better rating from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), a driver is still four times more likely to die. If the SUV has the better rating, that jumps to 10 times.
Researchers say even when a small SUV impacts a large passenger car, the driver of the SUV is more likely to survive because their truck is more likely to “ride over” the car.
According to Dr. Jehle, the larger SUVs now in production are “some of the safest cars on the roadways.”
Source : www.thedetroitbureau.com
“The overwhelming majority of fatalities occur in the smaller and lighter of the two vehicles,” explains Dr. Dietrich Jehle, a professor of emergency medicine at New York’s Erie County Medical Center, and one of the authors of the new study conducted by the University of Buffalo.
If the passenger car has the better rating from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), a driver is still four times more likely to die. If the SUV has the better rating, that jumps to 10 times.
Researchers say even when a small SUV impacts a large passenger car, the driver of the SUV is more likely to survive because their truck is more likely to “ride over” the car.
According to Dr. Jehle, the larger SUVs now in production are “some of the safest cars on the roadways.”
Source : www.thedetroitbureau.com
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