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[pixiedixie862]

Originally Posted by voodoo22

Was your Dad ever a traffic cop pealing kids off the pavement who go into accidents driving motorcycles? My Dad isn't an extreme guy, but he never let me on a motorcycle until I was in University for that reason!

It's statistically proven that smaller cars are safer than SUVs and the hypothesis as to why is that it's easier to avoid hitting or getting hit when you're smaller and you don't have an over inflated opinion of your own safety in a sub compact either. While some of that logic applies to a smaller vehicle like a motorcycle, if you get hit on a bike, you're pretty much toast.

I am going to prove my dad wrong, he began to point out at SUV's and said "your much safer in that thing, you need a big car to be safe". I disagreed with him and told him that i am going to prove him wrong.
I am going to look for that study to prove him wrong.

[voodoo22]

Originally Posted by pixiedixie862

I am going to prove my dad wrong, he began to point out at SUV's and said "your much safer in that thing, you need a big car to be safe". I disagreed with him and told him that i am going to prove him wrong.
I am going to look for that study to prove him wrong.

There are tons of resources on the internet about this on reputable websites. If your Dad is open to hearing opinions different than his own, you'll have him convinced in no time. I typed SUV less safe into google and got results like this:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...tc/before.html

"A Ford Explorer is 16 times as likely as the typical family car to kill occupants of another vehicle in a crash."

"Are SUVs safer or more dangerous than other vehicles in non-rollover crashes, such as front- and side-impact collisions?
It depends. SUVs offer better protection to their own occupants in multi-vehicle crashes, such as front- and side-impact collisions. However, SUVs are more likely to injure or kill the occupants of other vehicles in a crash. The increasing size of SUVs, and thus their increasing incompatibility with smaller passenger cars, is a growing problem and is likely to result in increasing fatalities."

"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."

...and we all know how irresponsible bigger cars are for use of resources. Such a waste and waste inevitably leads to problems for us all.