Good point, and it makes me feel safer driving my *relatively* smallish car.

Quoted: We feel that way because in the TrailBlazer our chances of surviving a collision with a hypothetical tractor-trailer in the other lane are greater than they are in the Porsche. What we forget, though, is that in the TrailBlazer you're also much more likely to hit the tractor-trailer because you can't get out of the way in time.

I was curious exactly what a safety is after last night...

Quoted: A safety, also known in Canadian football as a safety touch, is the act by which one team gains two points when an opponent who possesses the ball
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fumbles the ball out of bounds in the end zone or across the end line

Quoted: While no city in Washington showed up on the "25 Safest" or "25 Most Dangerous" lists, the only Puget Sound city that managed to break out of the bottom third of the list was Bellevue, at #57. Seattle came in at #262, more dangerous than 70% of the cities that were ranked.

I see these charts all the time saying that suvs and pickups are not as safe as smaller cars. However, I still would assume that when an SUV and Civic collide, the SUV will come out ahead because of the relative 'damage to other vehicle' caused by the SUV.

Quoted: A car that can anticipate a side-on impact and subtly alter its body shape to absorb the force of the crash is being developed by researchers in Germany.