These are the safest cars on the road
A fresh report identified eleven different car and SUV models in which no one died over a four year period.
That’s the highest number of models without a single fatality ever recorded by this survey.
The report, from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, looks at federal government auto fatality data from two thousand twelve through 2015.
These were the safest vehicles:
- Audi Q7 SUV
- Volkswagen ( VLKAF ) Tiguan two-wheel-drive SUV
- Toyota Tacoma Dual Cab long bed four-wheel-drive pickup
- Mazda CX-9 two-wheel-drive SUV
- Audi A6 all-wheel-drive
- Jeep Cherokee all-wheel-drive SUV
- BMW five hundred thirty five i and is
- BMW 535xi
- Lexus RX three hundred fifty two-wheel-drive SUV
- Lexus CT 200h
- Mercedes-Benz M-class SUV (called GLE-class in its current version)
You might notice that this list is strenuous on SUVs, with few puny or subcompact cars.
That’s truly just a matter of physics. If two vehicles, both of which perform identically well in crash tests, meet each other in a real-world wreck, the occupants of the smaller, lighter vehicle will likely fare worse.
In fact, the cars with the highest death rates in that same four-year period are all very petite cars. The top three with the highest death rates are the Hyundai Accent, Kia Rio and Toyota’s Scion tC.
Of course, there are more of some cars than others on the road, which means more people will die in them. So to account for that, the IIHS used a statistic called “deaths per million registered vehicle years.” One car of a particular model registered for one year is one “registered vehicle year.”
The Audi Q7 was one of eleven models in which no-one died during the four years from two thousand twelve through 2015.
Based on that, the Insurance Institute concluded that full-size luxury SUVS are the safest vehicles on the road. On average, there were just six deaths per million registered vehicle years in big luxury SUVs. Compare that to eighty seven for the average four-door subcompact car.
The good news is that puny cars are getting safer. For example, the two thousand fourteen Hyundai ( HYMTF ) Accent had a lower death rate than the two thousand eleven model version of that car. The Accent was redesigned in 2012. The same was true of the Kia Rio — its death rate dropped after it was redesigned in 2012.
Kia spokesman James Bell pointed that another fresh redesigned version of the Rio will be on the market soon that should be even safer. It will include more high-strength steel and fresh safety technology such as Automatic Emergency Braking, which brakes the car to avoid or mitigate a crash even if the driver fails to react.
Hyundai pointed out that the Accent meets or exceeds all safety standards and performs well in government crash tests.
Toyota ( TM ) said the Scion tC, which is no longer manufactured, lacked crash safety technologies that are available in Toyota’s newer puny cars.
These are the safest cars on the road – May
These are the safest cars on the road
A fresh report identified eleven different car and SUV models in which no one died over a four year period.
That’s the highest number of models without a single fatality ever recorded by this survey.
The report, from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, looks at federal government auto fatality data from two thousand twelve through 2015.
These were the safest vehicles:
- Audi Q7 SUV
- Volkswagen ( VLKAF ) Tiguan two-wheel-drive SUV
- Toyota Tacoma Dual Cab long bed four-wheel-drive pickup
- Mazda CX-9 two-wheel-drive SUV
- Audi A6 all-wheel-drive
- Jeep Cherokee all-wheel-drive SUV
- BMW five hundred thirty five i and is
- BMW 535xi
- Lexus RX three hundred fifty two-wheel-drive SUV
- Lexus CT 200h
- Mercedes-Benz M-class SUV (called GLE-class in its current version)
You might notice that this list is mighty on SUVs, with few puny or subcompact cars.
That’s indeed just a matter of physics. If two vehicles, both of which perform identically well in crash tests, meet each other in a real-world wreck, the occupants of the smaller, lighter vehicle will likely fare worse.
In fact, the cars with the highest death rates in that same four-year period are all very puny cars. The top three with the highest death rates are the Hyundai Accent, Kia Rio and Toyota’s Scion tC.
Of course, there are more of some cars than others on the road, which means more people will die in them. So to account for that, the IIHS used a statistic called “deaths per million registered vehicle years.” One car of a particular model registered for one year is one “registered vehicle year.”
The Audi Q7 was one of eleven models in which no-one died during the four years from two thousand twelve through 2015.
Based on that, the Insurance Institute concluded that full-size luxury SUVS are the safest vehicles on the road. On average, there were just six deaths per million registered vehicle years in big luxury SUVs. Compare that to eighty seven for the average four-door subcompact car.
The good news is that puny cars are getting safer. For example, the two thousand fourteen Hyundai ( HYMTF ) Accent had a lower death rate than the two thousand eleven model version of that car. The Accent was redesigned in 2012. The same was true of the Kia Rio — its death rate dropped after it was redesigned in 2012.
Kia spokesman James Bell pointed that another fresh redesigned version of the Rio will be on the market soon that should be even safer. It will include more high-strength steel and fresh safety technology such as Automatic Emergency Braking, which brakes the car to avoid or mitigate a crash even if the driver fails to react.
Hyundai pointed out that the Accent meets or exceeds all safety standards and performs well in government crash tests.
Toyota ( TM ) said the Scion tC, which is no longer manufactured, lacked crash safety technologies that are available in Toyota’s newer puny cars.
These are the safest cars on the road – May
These are the safest cars on the road
A fresh report identified eleven different car and SUV models in which no one died over a four year period.
That’s the highest number of models without a single fatality ever recorded by this survey.
The report, from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, looks at federal government auto fatality data from two thousand twelve through 2015.
These were the safest vehicles:
- Audi Q7 SUV
- Volkswagen ( VLKAF ) Tiguan two-wheel-drive SUV
- Toyota Tacoma Dual Cab long bed four-wheel-drive pickup
- Mazda CX-9 two-wheel-drive SUV
- Audi A6 all-wheel-drive
- Jeep Cherokee all-wheel-drive SUV
- BMW five hundred thirty five i and is
- BMW 535xi
- Lexus RX three hundred fifty two-wheel-drive SUV
- Lexus CT 200h
- Mercedes-Benz M-class SUV (called GLE-class in its current version)
You might notice that this list is mighty on SUVs, with few petite or subcompact cars.
That’s indeed just a matter of physics. If two vehicles, both of which perform identically well in crash tests, meet each other in a real-world wreck, the occupants of the smaller, lighter vehicle will likely fare worse.
In fact, the cars with the highest death rates in that same four-year period are all very petite cars. The top three with the highest death rates are the Hyundai Accent, Kia Rio and Toyota’s Scion tC.
Of course, there are more of some cars than others on the road, which means more people will die in them. So to account for that, the IIHS used a statistic called “deaths per million registered vehicle years.” One car of a particular model registered for one year is one “registered vehicle year.”
The Audi Q7 was one of eleven models in which no-one died during the four years from two thousand twelve through 2015.
Based on that, the Insurance Institute concluded that full-size luxury SUVS are the safest vehicles on the road. On average, there were just six deaths per million registered vehicle years in big luxury SUVs. Compare that to eighty seven for the average four-door subcompact car.
The good news is that petite cars are getting safer. For example, the two thousand fourteen Hyundai ( HYMTF ) Accent had a lower death rate than the two thousand eleven model version of that car. The Accent was redesigned in 2012. The same was true of the Kia Rio — its death rate dropped after it was redesigned in 2012.
Kia spokesman James Bell pointed that another fresh redesigned version of the Rio will be on the market soon that should be even safer. It will include more high-strength steel and fresh safety technology such as Automatic Emergency Braking, which brakes the car to avoid or mitigate a crash even if the driver fails to react.
Hyundai pointed out that the Accent meets or exceeds all safety standards and performs well in government crash tests.
Toyota ( TM ) said the Scion tC, which is no longer manufactured, lacked crash safety technologies that are available in Toyota’s newer petite cars.