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Facts about car culture:
Car weight has risen by 34% since 1980.
Bigger cars safer for their occupants endanger anything smaller, a phenomenon known as “crash incompatibility.”
For every life saved by a driver switching from car to SUV or pickup, 4.3 other drivers, pedestrians and cyclists are killed.
An SUV is 28% more likely than a regular car to kill another car’s occupants.
An SUV going 24 mph would have twice the impact as a sedan on a pedestrian’s brain.
https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-3/the-wests-hazardous-highways/
Car weight has risen by 34% since 1980.
Bigger cars safer for their occupants endanger anything smaller, a phenomenon known as “crash incompatibility.”
For every life saved by a driver switching from car to SUV or pickup, 4.3 other drivers, pedestrians and cyclists are killed.
An SUV is 28% more likely than a regular car to kill another car’s occupants.
An SUV going 24 mph would have twice the impact as a sedan on a pedestrian’s brain.
https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-3/the-wests-hazardous-highways/