One of America’s least-expensive new cars proved more likely to kill the driver, but some heavy, powerful vehicles also topped the list, and pickups too.
The car insurance industry’s premier safety agency has released a treasure trove of data about car crashes. But spotting trends in the data isn’t easy.
Crash tests, for instance, don’t resemble real-world crashes. A frontal crash test – when a safety lab slams a car into a barrier — simulates a car crashing into a car of similar size and weight. They don’t tell us how a subcompact SUV fares when a full-size truck slams into it. Real-world crash data can help plug some of the gaps. But it’s chaotic because crashes are as much about driver safety as car safety.The insurance industry’s safety watchdog America has two major safety agencies that crash test almost every car for sale. One is the federal government’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration . It was not involved in this study.
The IIHS has published figures on how often drivers die in each model every three years since 1989. This year, for the first time, the agency also considered how often the driver of the other vehicle in an accident dies. But some heavy, powerful vehicles made the list of cars with the highest death rate, too. The IIHS notes, “Six of the 21 vehicles with the highest driver death rates for model year 2020 are variants of the Chevrolet Camaro, Dodge Challenger, Dodge Charger, and Ford F Mustang.”
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