Statistics on the number of fatal accidents by car make and model

Nissan Micra 's are quite deadly in certain situations, packed with five occupants and involved in a high speed crash. I think there was a crash on the A1 where all 5 died in Micra.

Cars are weird, I mean everywhere in life we are told about the dangers of doing things (eg eating fatty foods). Small cars can travel at 100mph , but if you crashed them at perhaps 40mph into a static object, like a big tree, you'll most likely die. There's not much warning on the wrapper though.

Is it a kind of racket between car manufacturers and safety bodies? Government back handers?
 
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Orionaut said:
You certainly used to get figures like that.

I remember back in the 80's (?) seeing one that, IIRC, had Jag (XJ40?) at one end with 2% of accidents resulting in an occupant fatality and 2CV at the other end with 45% accidents resulting in an occupant fatality! :eek:
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I can imagine the 2CV's nice metal dash provides good head protection.

My parents neighbor wrapped a Jag around a tree and she is in wheel chair permanently. Had to completely convert their house adding in a lift.
 
stopper said:
All Micra's are deadly on high speed roads, they should only be for slow inner city driving and pizza delivery, imo.
I would still love a diesel turbo k12 though, you can have a lot of fun modding them, and they are cheap to do!
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In Japan they have lots of little cars like that (Kei cars), but people don't drive them as fast as we do. As you say they make great urban vehicles.
 
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acemastr said:
I'm struggling to understand why the Nissan Titan is so high up, it's a massive truck, yet the Pathfinder, which it's basically based on, is one of the safest
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Rollovers

I wonder if gender plays a roll. I bet all Titan's are driven by men.
 
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Amp34 said:
Isn’t UK unfortunately (never found any data for that), but it will have a significant number of the models sold in the UK.

http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/insurance-loss-information

But as above, the larger the vehicle the safer it is generally. With SUVs being safer than saloons and hatchbacks, with the exception that very large cars are generally slightly safer than small SUVs.

http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/g...tyfacts/passenger-vehicles#Driver-death-rates

Are you looking for a study, or for personal use for a car purchase?
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I'm interested in general and I was thinking of buying an SUV, however good one's are expensive. Seems a large estate would be quite safe too, but cheaper.

I surprised this information isn't publicly available in the UK, because it might affect peoples buying habits.
 
Which would you say is the safest:

BMW 5 series
BMW 5 series touring
BMW X5

I believe the chassis is the same on all three. I guess the isn't too much difference.
 
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Realistically probably not a huge amount of difference assuming like for like chassis. Personally I'd pick based on what I prefer to drive. Do you want more space, more sporty drive, higher ground clearance, more visibility?

The X5 has more boot/interior space, but is also the smaller vehicle (shorter, but a shade wider) if that's important.
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I can't really afford an X5 anyway, even £20k won't really buy anything good. I think I'll end up getting an estate.
 
I already have a Skoda, but it is a Vrs, which could be the model that accounts for all those deaths. :p


Do you think Audi might be safer because of Quattro? Audi's share chassis with VW.

Maybe BMWs are just a handful and difficult to control at high speed, like if you had to swerve.
 
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