Vehicle Fatal Crash Statistics

[Biketographer]

 I have some comments about this, below.


   NEW YORK, Aug. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ford F-Series pickup was involved in over 10,000 crashes over the past 5 years, making the top-selling pickup the most dangerous vehicle in America, according to a new report from ValuePenguin.com by LendingTree. The study identified the 25 cars, trucks and SUVs that are most likely to be in fatal crashes. Here are the key findings from the analysis:

   
• The Ford F-Series was the most likely to be involved in fatal crashes: The Ford F-150 was involved in 10,845 fatal crashes over the past five years. Rounding up the five most dangerous behind the Ford F-150 are the Chevrolet Silverado (7,718 fatal crashes), Honda Accord (5,079 fatal crashes), Toyota Camry (4,734), and Ram Pickup Trucks (5,897 fatal crashes). 
• The Ford Mustang does the worst job of protecting its occupants - 0.71 Mustang occupants are killed per fatal crash. Other cars where occupants did not fare well in fatal crashes include the Ford Taurus (0.7 occupants killed), the Honda Civic (0.7 occupants killed), the Ford Ranger (0.68 occupants killed) and the Ford Ranger (0.68 occupants killed).
• While the deadliest individual models were pickups and SUVs, passenger cars are still involved in more crashes than any other type of passenger vehicle. A total of 100,388 passenger cars were involved in fatal crashes over the past five years. Pickups and SUVs are involved in 42,774, and 41,207, fatal crashes respectively. Minivans were in just 11,006 fatal crashes. 
• Motorcycles account for 10% of fatal crashes, despite making up only 3% of registered vehicles. Additionally, the number of motorcycle occupants killed per crash is a staggering 0.98. This means that if a motorcyclist is involved in a fatal crash, the motorcyclist or their passenger is killed nearly every time.
• Cars between 10 and 15 years old are involved in the most fatal crashes, while newer models were involved in fewer crashes. A large part of this comes down to car manufacturers continually improving safety features like collision avoidance technology.

ValuePenguin.com analysts collected data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and car manufacturers to determine which vehicles are most often involved in fatal crashes. To view the full report, visit: https://www.valuepenguin.com/top-deadliest-vehicles
   

					The Deadliest Vehicles in the United States
Rank	Make	Model	Total fatal crashes	Units sold in 2018	Occupants killed per vehicle in a fatal crash
1	Ford	F-Series	10,845	909,330	0.46
2	Chevrolet	Silverado	7,718	585,581	0.47
3	Honda	Accord	5,079	291,071	0.65
4	Toyota	Camry	4,734	343,439	0.59
5	Ram	Pickup	5,897	536,980	0.43
6	Honda	Civic	4,397	325,760	0.7
7	Toyota	Corolla	3,430	303,732	0.64
8	Ford	Explorer	3,332	261,571	0.61
9	Nissan	Altima	3,267	209,146	0.6
10	GMC	Sierra	3,245	219,554	0.48
11	Chevrolet	Impala	2,804	56,556	0.68
12	Ford	Ranger	2,476	Not sold in 2018	0.68
13	Chevrolet	Malibu	2,345	144,542	0.64
14	Jeep	Grand Cherokee	2,304	224,908	0.52
15	Ford	Focus	2,256	114,045	0.68
16	Chevrolet	Tahoe	2,113	104,152	0.5
17	Ford	Mustang	1,963	75,842	0.71
18	Ford	Taurus	1,913	40,341	0.7
19	Chevrolet	Gmt-400	1,851	Not sold in 2018	0.63
20	Toyota	Tacoma	1,763	245,659	0.54
21	Ford	Escape	1,700	272,228	0.52
22	Nissan	Sentra	1,561	213,046	0.67
23	Ford	Fusion	1,550	173,600	0.53
24	Honda	Cr-V	1,526	379,013	0.53
25	Jeep	Wrangler	1,513	240,032	0.51

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[Biketographer]

Let's use our brains a little bit to analyze what that report means.
My first question about their statistics is;  they report crashes which involved a fatality, does this mean these stats are for crashes when one, or more, persons in the listed vehicle died?  Or does it include stats for when someone died in any of the vehicles involved in the crash?

Motorcycles involved in fatal crashes; 98% of the people on the motorcycle died.  If these stats are only for vehicles when 1 or more people died in/on that vehicle, then obviously, as the average number of occupants of the vehicle goes down towards 1, then the  'occupants killed per fatal crash' would go to 1.  How often do you see two people on a motorcycle? 
Let's compare that to a vehicle not even listed - a school bus.   Suppose school busses average 50 passengers when involved in a fatal crash.  If there was a single fatality, that would put it on this chart as 0.02   Pickup trucks, being more likely to be a vehicle involved in working, have a very high percentage of time with only one occupant, so of course, the 'occupants killed per fatal crash' would be higher.
If a loaded school bus with 90 kids on it rear-ends a motorcycle with 1 rider, and the motorcyclist is killed, how did this 'study' count that fatality?

What I see as the most important part of this report is the data that they have not reported !  I would find it informative if they reported fatalities per crash and also reported the percentage of those vehicle crashes per mile.  If there are only two one-passenger Acme-super-car in the country and one is involved in a fatal crash, it would be misleading to report that it has a fatality rate of 100%.

[SVbadguy]

These stats are just retarded.

How is the number of X vehicles sold in a year the least bit relevant to the number of fatalities occurring in X model when I highly doubt the fatality count is limited to those vehicles sold that same year?


Of course there is going to be a higher fatality count with Ford trucks.  Nearly a million F-150s alone sold every year.