Driver Deaths by Make & Model

[Pacfanweb]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: PottedMeat
Most of those on the Worse Driver Death Rate list end up with younger, more inexperienced drivers. Weird to see a SUV like a Blazer or Montero there - shitty construction?

the 2 door blazer was mostly driven by high schoolers. they stopped making 2 door blazers when they changed the name to tahoe.

Don't think you're talking about the same car as the others are. They're talking about 2-door Blazers, which were formerly called S-10 Blazers, and Trail Blazers. Still made those in 2-door.

And as far as the big Blazers/Tahoes are concerned, they started making Tahoes in 1995. They made them in both 4 and 2 door versions. Not sure how long the continued the 2-doors, which were formerly known as Blazers (and K5 Blazers even farther back), but they did make 2-door Tahoes, which were the same as 2-door Blazers were the previous year. (Also made 2-door GMC Yukons, formerly called the Jimmy)

 

[radioouman]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: PottedMeat
Most of those on the Worse Driver Death Rate list end up with younger, more inexperienced drivers. Weird to see a SUV like a Blazer or Montero there - shitty construction?

the 2 door blazer was mostly driven by high schoolers. they stopped making 2 door blazers when they changed the name to tahoe.

Originally posted by: sdifox
Interesting how G35 is on the low list but the 350Z is on the high list.

vastly different drivers. the bottom list are cars that usually have younger, less experienced drivers. the 350Z may draw a somewhat more experienced driver than others on there, but it's also much more powerful than most. the 350z is probably not driven by people with kids, which leaves young single men and empty nesters.

When they changed the name to Trailblazer.

 

[Muadib]

I don't see the Acura TL on this list, so I'm taking mine to 140 mph today, and slamming into the first yahoo that cuts me off.

 

[Lonyo]

The main thing to look at on the high death rate car list is the type of accident, mv vs sv vs roll.
The 350Z has an SUV like distribution meaning it's mostly bad drivers screwing up and having accidents on their own.
Something like the Neon has a lot of mv deaths, so it's probably that they've had impacts with other cars that are bigger, and it's not so much an issue of poor driving/poor single car safety, but smashing into bigger things.
People who drive Blazers it seems just can't drive.

The thing that the table doesn't show is deaths per miles driver per car, only per x registered vehicles, which is pretty meaningless.
If people who drive Blazers do 100,000 miles/yr on average and get in 232 accidents per million registered vehicles, and the Astro gets driven on average 1,000 miles/yr and has 7 per million, which is safer?

 

[fleabag]

These "death statistics" are 99% of the time related to the demographics of its drivers and not so much about the safety of the car itself.