Play with the dropdowns. Vehicle safety is pretty serious business with millions of injuries per year. I'm not citing everything that's casually available.
It's a legitimately hard choice to base on real world statistics, more due to availability than anything else.
IIHS does present some basic detail for occupants [0] [1], although only as recent as 4 years so statistics can have some time to build. That's okay, it's enough to put some perspective on new cars as well. It's at least a partially objective look at what safety by pickup vs sedan vs minivan vs whatever looks like for the people inside your vehicle.
Good find. The text of the DOT website is a little vague, but I think you're right that the 1.45 per 1M number is only from police reports.
Data for GES [General Estimates System] come from a nationally representative
sample of police reported motor vehicle crashes of all types, from minor to fatal.
... Although various sources suggest that about half the motor vehicle crashes in
the country are not reported to the police, the majority of these unreported crashes
involve only minor property damage and no significant personal injury.
I guess that's saying the actual number should be about double, so ~3 per 1M.
I'm also wondering if any private operators of fleets publish stats. For example, does FedEx or UPS publish accident rates? I know those numbers would also be skewed, larger vehicles, more frequent stops, etc. But it could be another data point.
They are also only using fatal accidents and not all accidents. I'm assuming that truck accidents are more likely to be fatal than non truck accidents but I have no data.
That link does not provide data either way. In fact it explicitly declares its inability to do so:
“Cars driven under traditional human control are currently involved in approximately 1.18 fatalities for every 100,000,000 mi (160,000,000 km) driven.[3] According to many automotive safety experts, much more data is yet required before any such clear and demonstrably higher levels of safety can be convincingly provided”
New Zealand keeps fairly good records which can be downloaded here: http://www.transport.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/Research/Documen... page 62 lists the percentage of crashes, crashes with injuries and crashes with fatalities. Speed is constantly found in around 30% of fatal crashes.
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