Yaris vs. Camry - Yaris looses

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Originally Posted by supmet

Wow a bunch of numbers that do nothing to show how often cars hit with exactly opposite forces, thanks!

Here is something from wiki that's actually useful:

# Head-on collision................but 10.1% of US fatal crashes)

2% is low, but how many of those are exactly opposite vectors of each other?? .

sarcastic and smug all at once...are you sure you dont drive a prius?

so, one out of every 50 crashes is a head on collision. head on crashes are going to be quite often opposite vectors of each other.

you just cited information that contradicts your "1 in a million" idea. then you ask a question that my useless statistics already gave you the answer to. the head on crashes are precisely the crashes that make up a good chunk of the fatalities.

head on crashes may make up 2% of all crashes in the u.s. but the fact that head on crashes make up for 10% of fatal crashes is very disproportionate.

so, of the 40,000 fatal crashes per year in the U.S., 4000 of them are due to head on collisions.

trees make up another 8% of all fatal crashes, and certainly many of those are of the head on variety.

so, clearly more than 1 in 50 crashes are of the head on variety. to argue about how precisely offset the crashes are is not productive. a head on crash in any car has a disproportionate chance of ending in a fatality compared to all crashes, and having it happen in a yaris wont make those odds better.

however, the point that driving a smaller, more nimble car can help one avoid crashes in the first place is valid, so there are advantages to a car like the yaris that crash tests, of course, cannot measure.