Talk:Road accident statistics on a model-by-model basis

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Please note that accident statistics are only part of the picture. Accident statistics tell you things about the crashworthiness, BUT ALSO about the driving habits of different drivers.

Jaguar cars may not be the safest cars in the road, but size and price make them being drived only by a conservative kind of people, with less serious accidents.

Land Rovers are usually employed as tools of work, and they are too spartan to be used as daily transport.

This was called "the Volvo effect". Old Volvos (200, 700, 900 and 800 series) were rated as rather poor cars (to modern standards) in crash tests, but they are very "safe" when you see accident statistics. How is this possible?. Well, safety conscious people drive more carefully, and they bought a great chunk of those old Volvos, so they had less severe accidents. It was not only tha car, IT WAS ALSO THE DRIVER.

On the other hand, the statistics linked in the page lead to a study that does not include SINGLE VEHICLE CRASHES. Please remember that SUVs have a much higher incidence of roll-over (and roll-overs in SUVs are VERY DANGEROUS) crashes than conventional cars.

Randroide 14:25, 7 April 2006 (UTC)Randroide