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News, Analysis and EditorialGeneral Motors Dominates List of Models with Highest Death Rates
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Auto on Info March 2005 General Motors Dominates List of Models with Highest Death Rates The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, an organization funded by auto insurance providers, has completed its calculation of rates, by motor vehicle model, of driver death from accidents - crashes and rollovers - occurring during calendar years 2000 to 2003 and involving passenger vehicles of model years 1999 to 2002. Using the results from this calculation, it has assembled a list of fourteen models having the highest driver fatality rates. General Motors Corporation dominates this list, accounting for eight of the fourteen models. The following table provides each manufacturer's percentage of entries on the Highest-Rates-of-Driver-Death list.
The foregoing numbers may mean, in part, that GM products are among the least safe; however, they may also mean, in part, that GM's overall quality is so low that its customers are, disproportionately, persons with lower awareness and diminutive cognitive talents, people likely more prone toward fatal accidents. Source for Highest-Rates-of-Driver-Death list: "Status Report: The Risk of Dying in One Vehicle Versus Another: Driver Death Rates by Make and Model," Volume 40, Number 3, March 19, 2005, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, accessible via "Big 3 Autos Do Poorly in Safety Study," The Detroit News, March 16, 2005 at http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0503/16/D01-118497.htm |
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