The IIHS investigated 79 traffic accidents that took place in Michigan. Unsurprisingly, it turns out that at over 30 km / h, SUVs cause more injuries to pedestrians than conventional cars. Worse, between 32 and 63 km / h, 30% of accidents involving SUVs were fatal for pedestrians, while they are only up to 23% with normal cars. Naturally, the higher the speed, the more lethal the SUVs: all collisions at more than 64 km / h were for pedestrians, against 54% of collisions with classic cars.
These results should however be qualified. First, they concern only 79 accidents in a single American state. Then, American SUVs are, for the most part, of a much larger size than those found in Europe, the top of their hood arrives at least at the level of the chest of an adult, and this even before 'they are raised by their owner, which is not uncommon. However, even at home, the height of the grille of these high-legged vehicles, whose success does not seem to want to run out of steam, remains dangerous. In the event of a collision, it inevitably has an… impact
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