Highway Death Toll: Weight Matters.Driver death rates in 1994-97 model cars, passenger vans, pickup Pickup A gain in yield made by selling one bond and buying another. Also referred to as "yield pickup." Notes: When the present yield is relatively low compared to the longer-term yields, pickups will be done by investors trying to increase the yield and duration of their trucks and utility vehicles during a four-year period support the theory that motorists in some models are two to three times more likely to die in a crash than those in other models, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is a U.S. non-profit organization funded by auto insurers. It works to reduce the number of motor vehicle crashes, and the rate of injuries and amount of property damage in the crashes that still occur. . The average death rate in all passenger vehicles during 1995-98 is 89 per million registered vehicle years. Two important characteristics influencing crash outcome are vehicle size and weight. The smaller, lighter vehicles in each class generally have higher death rates. The vehicles with the lowest death rates are larger, heavier passenger vans. Rates for these vehicles likely reflect their use patterns as well as their larger, more protective designs. Two-door cars generally have higher death rates than four-door models weighing about the same.Sports cars have the highest death rate, particularly Chevrolet Camaro, Camaro convertible and Pontiac Firebird The Pontiac Firebird was a pony car built by the Pontiac division of General Motors between 1967 and 2002. The Firebird was introduced in the same year with its platform sharing cousin the Chevrolet Camaro. , according to the Institute. For a very large luxury car, the Lincoln Lincoln, city and district, England Lincoln, city (1991 pop. 79,980) and district, Lincolnshire, E England, in the Parts of Kesteven, on the Witham River. Town Car's death rate is high, a reflection of the concentration of elderly people who drive this model. Fifty-six percent of the people killed in crashes of this car from 1995 to 1998 were 65 years or older, according to the Institute. Within any given weight class, pickup trucks have the highest driver death rates, and four-wheel-drive pickups have the highest rates. Injuries suffered in fatal crashes are relatively rare, so they have little influence on insurance losses for injuries. Such losses are dominated by the more frequent low- to moderate-severity collisions. However, small two- and four-door cars have high rates of driver death and poor insurance injury claims experience. The full study, "Status Report Special Issue: Driver Death Rates," is available on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the at www.hwysafety.org/sr_ddr/sr3507.htm. |
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