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My issues with SUV's are:
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Marc Jensen
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Apr 21, 2004 17:11 PDT
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My issues with SUV's are:
1. Solo Roll Over: 5000 deaths per year VS 1000 bike deaths/year & 5000 ped
deaths/year)
2. Higher threat to pedestrians: 2-3 times more likely to die if struck
by an SUV: see PubMed abstract at bottom
(It would be interesting to see how many bicyclist are killed by SUV's
as a function of the number of SUV's on the road)
3. Bull bars: Higher likleyhood of killing peds
4. Lower Emission requirements vs cars
5. Poor Gas Mileage => dependence on middle eastern terrorist funding
nations
5. Poor Gas Mileage => increase in global warming emissions
6. High Side Impact Threat to Passenger Cars
<http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1082422332809_77831532/
?hub=World>
7. High dealer markup => increase in debt burden for families
8. High crash threat to cars due to frame construction:
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Accid Anal Prev 2004 Mar;36(2):295-304.
The fatality and injury risk of light truck impacts with pedestrians in the
United States.
Lefler DE, Gabler HC.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill
Road, Glassboro, NJ 08028-1701, USA.
In the United States, passenger vehicles are shifting from a fleet populated
primarily by cars to a fleet dominated by light trucks and vans (LTVs).
Because light trucks are heavier, stiffer, and geometrically more blunt than
passenger cars, they pose a dramatically different type of threat to
pedestrians. This paper investigates the effect of striking vehicle type on
pedestrian fatalities and injuries. The analysis incorporates three major
sources of data, the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), the General
Estimates System (GES), and the Pedestrian Crash Data Study (PCDS). The
paper presents and compares pedestrian impact risk factors for sport utility
vehicles, pickup trucks, vans, and cars as developed from analyses of US
accident statistics. Pedestrians are found to have a two to three times
greater likelihood of dying when struck by an LTV than when struck by a car.
Examination of pedestrian injury distributions reveals that, given an impact
speed, the probability of serious head and thoracic injury is substantially
greater when the striking vehicle is an LTV rather than a car.
PMID: 14642884
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