[Dr. Scarpetta]

But the data also show that your chance of dying in a car accident goes up as your car gets smaller

It took a study to figure this out...

[Da Coyote]

“But the data also show that your chance of dying in a car accident goes up as your car gets smaller”

Since libs did the study, this was - of course - unexpected.

[MissEdie]

I’ll have to share this with my husband, who in all due respect I thought was being a bit too anal when he insisted on me getting a bigger vehicle to drive our 2 year-old daughter around in (I was driving a Jeep Liberty and I thought it was big enough). What spear-headed this was a lady I worked with was on her way to work and got rear-ended by a large truck while she was stopped waiting on a school bus. She was driving a small sedan, and she got killed in the accident. He wanted something large enough if we got rear-ended we’d be ok. He got the biggest thing on the lot, a Ford Expedition. Unfortunately it doesn’t get the same gas mileage as the Jeep, but we both feel our daughter is safer in it, and that is all that matters.

[Upstate NY Guy]

It is true that bigger is better in an accident. And if all accidents are unavoidable then it would always make more sense to drive a bigger vehicle. But in reality many accidents are avoidable. And an experienced driver has a greater chance of avoiding an accident in a car that can stop quickly and corner hard without rolling. So the equation is not that simple.