(It's Jason this time)
>Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 18:00:34 -0500
>From: Jon Steiger <stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu>
>Subject: Re: DML: Dakota crash
>At 04:40 PM 10/31/98 +00-06, you wrote:
>>Check this out from the same site that rates the Dak as poor in
>>crashworthiness.
>>
>>http://www.hwysafety.org/crash/crashgen/ddr8.htm
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> On an unrelated note, from looking at the data, it appears that your
>chances of surviving a multiple vehicle accident are significantly
>higher than for a single vehicle accident. I don't know what that
>says exactly, but I found it interesting.
I think it's because they've scaled it so that the average sits at 100. The
way I understood it, the Dak doesn't have 77 deaths per so many vehicles,
but it has 77% of the average.
I'm just looking at the legend on the right side, where is says
Driver Death Rates
as stated in relative terms -- 100 represents average
And then there's this section:
Average driver death rates per 10,000 registered vehicle years:
Overall agerage = 1.0 deaths per 10,000 = 100
Multiple-vehicle average = 0.6 deaths per 10,000 = 100
Single-vehicle average = 0.5 deaths per 10,000 = 100
(which doesn't add up, BTW) Since this is per registered vehicle years and
not per crashes, it combines the crash survivability with how often the
vehicles get into crashes in the first place.
The lower numbers in the multiple vehicle column I think just mean that
trucks are more likely to survive when crashed into by cars.
This paragraph is somewhat interesting:
Rates are presented in relative terms -- each overall result indicates
driver deaths per 10,000 registered vehicle years compared with the
average result for all passenger vechiles.
So not only would this seem to indicate that the Dakota more survivable than
other compact pickup trucks, but it's more so than the average of *all*
passenger vehicles. Volvo, eat your heart out :-).
BTW, has anyone looked at who is paying for all of this crash data to be
collected? The list of the companies doing this research reads like the
"auto insurance" section of the yellow pages. There's no conflict of
interest or anything there, oh, no.
Jason
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