I'm not sure what your post has to do with the Prius's crumple zones but I can tell you this about opinions and references.
For every published opinion you find saying this, you will find another saying that, for example:
It's Official: SUVs Are Safer Than Cars (Well, Mostly)
I make every effort to find and cite a credible source of information (a left over practice from my college days) and not the opinion of a special interest group. Take the above link, it presents information from a credible source, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Take a look at this one, a study done by the University of Michigan:
http://eetd.lbl.gov/ea/teepa/pdf/TRB_Safety_1-03.pdf
My point is if you are going to reference to support an opinion, then please reference a credible source. It doesn't take much more effort to find credible information.
Both of these links provide credible study data but neither supports your opinion or the claim of the detroitporject which is lacking references to credible data to support their opinions.
I thank you for your public service and I realize it takes a special person to deal with the tragedies you see but you do only see the worst of it and not the typical.
http://www.safercar.gov/Vehicle+Shoppers/Rollover/Fatalities
Before You Buy An Suv... | Rollover | FRONTLINE | PBS
How serious is the motor vehicle rollover problem in the U.S. today?
Single-vehicle rollovers (for all vehicles, not just SUVs) cause more fatalities than any other kind of motor-vehicle accident -- one-quarter of all deaths yearly. In 1999, 63 percent of all SUV deaths were in rollovers.
Do SUVs have higher rollover rates than other types of vehicles?
Yes. In 2000, SUVs had the highest rollover involvement rate of any vehicle type in fatal crashes -- 36 percent, as compared with 24 percent for pickups, 19 percent for vans and 15 percent for traffic cars. SUVs also had the highest rollover rate for passenger vehicles in injury crashes -- 12 percent, as compared to 7 percent for pickups, 4 percent for vans and 3 percent for passenger cars.
https://www.google.com/search?sourc...9870l0l5143381l13l13l0l3l3l0l367l1695l3-5l5l0.
In the following study they only counted the driver death. It didn't count the family members or work crew that died or the people in the other vehicle that were run over by the SUV. I was going to come up with some correlation for the method but I couldn't come up with any that made a bit of sense. Their thinking is skewed.
http://autos.yahoo.com/news/suvs-now-least-likely-for-rollover-crashes.html
Each year, from 2006 through 2009, drivers of newer SUVs suffered an average of 28 deaths per million vehicles, according to the Institute. That's about half the average driver death rate for cars, which was 56.
The Institute only counts the driver's death even if multiple people died in the vehicle that crashed. By doing this, multi-passenger vehicles can be more fairly compared to those that carry fewer people.
In this report 32,788 people died in the U.S. in 2010. If you read the links above you would see that about 10,000 people died in rollovers. Rollovers are only 6% of accidents but cause a third of deaths. Look at the visor of a SUV. It warns you it "will happen" if you do certain dumb acts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/01/us/01driving.html
http://www.iihs.org/news/rss/pr060210.html
If you read all my posts on this topic you will see I try not to repeat the same sources each time I reference a link.
From what I see reported SUV's and pickups are more dangerous than passenger cars. A bit of personal experience with that also.
I didn't reference the Pickup fatalities. They are similar to SUV stats as I have referenced in prior posts. I can't do all the work for you. You have read everything not what you can pick apart.
Most SUV' are getting safer. Mostly. Like your link says.
