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SUVs Are Safe.(Brief Article)
SUVs Are Safe Douglas Coate and James VanderHoff, "The Truth About Light Trucks," in Regulation (Spring 2001), Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
In recent years, some experts have accused "light trucks"--which include minivans, pickups, and SUVs--of increasing highway fatalities. In 1998, for example, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) director Ricardo Martinez declared that replacing light trucks with cars would reduce deaths caused by cars by 2,000 a year, because cars tended to be damaged when they hit light trucks. But there are more light trucks on the road each year--and the highway death rate is steadily declining.
Rutgers economists Coate and VanderHoff compared light truck use between 1994-97 with a wide variety of factors, including rain, snow, death rates, suicide rates, and education. They found that during that period, light ...
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...month of 50 percent-plus light-truck sales could put light trucks over 50 percent for all of 2001. The growth in light-truck sales is a long-term trend. In 1986, light trucks were only 28.8 percent...