Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It is very difficult to make these sort of generalized predictions. If they were all true, we would only drive Suburbans. But I hate really big cars. What to do? In the last 5 years of testing there have been some unusually surprising results. Several quite small cars tested at a very high score, and of course, several big ones didn't do so well. And pickups, a large portion of what's on the road where I live, will smash anything but isn't something you want to be in, in a wreck. And further, Driving a Suburban doesn't do one a bit of good if struck by a semi, so buying a big car over a small one really doesn't mean a thing; a large sedan over a mini when hit by a Hummer? Isn?t worth the trouble and gas. Me? I'm buying a cement truck. Bill Pearce -----Original Message----- From: Tomas Szoboszlai Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 8:40 AM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] crash safety (was Re: S2 vs. 645D) According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety: "The death rate in 1-3-year-old minicars in multiple-vehicle crashes during 2007 was almost twice as high as the rate in very large cars." It is the same for single-vehicle crashes: "The death rate per million 1-3-year-old minis [small cars] in single-vehicle crashes during 2007 was 35 compared with 11 per million for very large cars. Even in midsize cars, the death rate in single-vehicle crashes was 17 percent lower than in minicars." http://www.iihs.org/news/rss/pr041409.html Tom Sz. On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote: > Chris Crawford wrote: > >>Don't believe everything the government tells you. In 2000, I was driving >>my 1991 Chevy Caprice down West Jefferson Boulevard, Fort Wayne's main >>east-west road. Speed limit on the highway is 50mph, and I was going close >>to that when a woman who was high on pot ran a stop light and pulled into >>an intersection I was passing through. I slammed on my brakes and my car >>crashed directly into the side of her Ford Tempo, a small car. My car >>caved in the side of her car and pushed it 50 feet off the road. My car >>was smashed a bit in the front but was still driveable. I drove it home! > > A single anecdote no matter how meaningful to you does little to predict > the outcome of future unknown accidents. We can't predict with 100% > accuracy any particular accident, the severity of each one or the outcome > of any single event but over time by accumulating data from numerous > incidents patterns can appear. That's what the NHTSA data is supposed to > represent. > > OTOH if your particular driving habits include a greater-than-average > incidence of crossing intersections when someone else is rolling through a > stop sign then your anecdote has some value in predicting your future > accidents. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information