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GM's Blazer Ranked Deadliest Car on U.S. Roadways
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DETROIT (Reuters) - The two-door Chevrolet Blazer from General Motors Corp. has the highest driver death rate of any passenger vehicle on U.S. roadways, a research group with links to the insurance industry said on Tuesday.
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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (news - web sites) based that conclusion, and its embarrassing result for the world's largest automaker, on an extensive study of passenger vehicles from the 1999-2002 model years.
The study focused on the rate of driver deaths in various types of crashes, including both single- and multiple-vehicle accidents.
The overall driver death rate, for 199 models studied during the 2000-2003 calendar years, was 87 per million registered vehicles annually, the Insurance Institute said.
Weighing in at more than three times the overall rate, the Insurance Institute said the two-door, two-wheel-drive Blazer -- a midsize sport utility vehicle -- had an average of 308 driver deaths per million.
The Blazer also had the highest rate of driver deaths in rollover accidents at 251 per million.
Highlighting a longstanding trend, the Insurance Institute said "large cars and minivans dominate among vehicle models with very low death rates." Models with the highest rates are "mostly small cars and small and midsize SUVs," it said
Bucking the trend, however, the Insurance Institute said the small-sized Toyota RAV4 SUV from Toyota Motor Corp. (news - web sites) ranked among vehicles with the lowest average driver death rate.
Vehicles with the lowest overall rate of driver deaths were led by the large Mercedes E-Class luxury sedan from DaimlerChrysler, at 10 per million, according to the Insurance Institute.
That was followed by the Toyota 4Runner midsize SUV, with an overall driver death rate of 12, the four-door midsize Passat from Volkswagen, with 16 deaths, Toyota's Lexus RX 300 midsize SUV, at 17, and RAV4 with 18.
In addition to the Blazer, vehicles with the highest driver death rates were led by the Mitsubishi Mirage, a two-door, small-sized car from Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (news - web sites), GM's Pontiac Firebird sports car, the subcompact Kia Rio from Kia Motors Corp. and the two-wheel-drive Kia Sportage compact SUV.
Driver death rates for those vehicles came in at 209, 205, 200 and 197, respectively.
GM has already halted full-scale production of the two-door Blazer and the vehicle, one of the oldest in the company's lineup, is due to be phased out entirely next month.
Without commenting specifically on the SUV, a company spokesman defended GM's safety record and questioned the usefulness of the Insurance Institute's study.
"GM designs crashworthiness and crash avoidance attributes into all of our vehicles and conducts a battery of tests that replicate an array of potential real-world crashes as part of our commitment to safety before, during and after a crash," GM spokesman Alan Adler said in a statement.
"It is impossible looking at these statistics to know what role driver behavior, such as drunk driving and driving without a safety belt, played in these deaths. We know from decades of work that whether a driver dies in a crash has more to do with behavior than with the vehicle."
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GM's Blazer Ranked Deadliest Car on U.S. Roadways
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DETROIT (Reuters) - The two-door Chevrolet Blazer from General Motors Corp. has the highest driver death rate of any passenger vehicle on U.S. roadways, a research group with links to the insurance industry said on Tuesday.
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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (news - web sites) based that conclusion, and its embarrassing result for the world's largest automaker, on an extensive study of passenger vehicles from the 1999-2002 model years.
The study focused on the rate of driver deaths in various types of crashes, including both single- and multiple-vehicle accidents.
The overall driver death rate, for 199 models studied during the 2000-2003 calendar years, was 87 per million registered vehicles annually, the Insurance Institute said.
Weighing in at more than three times the overall rate, the Insurance Institute said the two-door, two-wheel-drive Blazer -- a midsize sport utility vehicle -- had an average of 308 driver deaths per million.
The Blazer also had the highest rate of driver deaths in rollover accidents at 251 per million.
Highlighting a longstanding trend, the Insurance Institute said "large cars and minivans dominate among vehicle models with very low death rates." Models with the highest rates are "mostly small cars and small and midsize SUVs," it said
Bucking the trend, however, the Insurance Institute said the small-sized Toyota RAV4 SUV from Toyota Motor Corp. (news - web sites) ranked among vehicles with the lowest average driver death rate.
Vehicles with the lowest overall rate of driver deaths were led by the large Mercedes E-Class luxury sedan from DaimlerChrysler, at 10 per million, according to the Insurance Institute.
That was followed by the Toyota 4Runner midsize SUV, with an overall driver death rate of 12, the four-door midsize Passat from Volkswagen, with 16 deaths, Toyota's Lexus RX 300 midsize SUV, at 17, and RAV4 with 18.
In addition to the Blazer, vehicles with the highest driver death rates were led by the Mitsubishi Mirage, a two-door, small-sized car from Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (news - web sites), GM's Pontiac Firebird sports car, the subcompact Kia Rio from Kia Motors Corp. and the two-wheel-drive Kia Sportage compact SUV.
Driver death rates for those vehicles came in at 209, 205, 200 and 197, respectively.
GM has already halted full-scale production of the two-door Blazer and the vehicle, one of the oldest in the company's lineup, is due to be phased out entirely next month.
Without commenting specifically on the SUV, a company spokesman defended GM's safety record and questioned the usefulness of the Insurance Institute's study.
"GM designs crashworthiness and crash avoidance attributes into all of our vehicles and conducts a battery of tests that replicate an array of potential real-world crashes as part of our commitment to safety before, during and after a crash," GM spokesman Alan Adler said in a statement.
"It is impossible looking at these statistics to know what role driver behavior, such as drunk driving and driving without a safety belt, played in these deaths. We know from decades of work that whether a driver dies in a crash has more to do with behavior than with the vehicle."
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i know few of our local teen drivers start out on blazers. they are like the tempo everyone had one or seemed like. also i think it is not a specific patern of rolloever like the fords had with explorer. look at who the firebird was geared torwards. I would also like to know how many of those wrecks were convertables, they don't have a high crash test rating to begin with. it has fast speed and cheaper than a vette and are more to the younger pontiac drivers.
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I remember seeing a test on TV, with the Ford explorer,,Consumer Reports or Car & Driver,,,one of them did,,They had a Explorer,,set up the rear tire or tires so they would deflate at a quick rate,,then they did the simulated flat tire runs,at different speeds up to 70 mph or so,,with Explorer coming out fine. Had no I'll effects when a flat tire was simulated at many different speeds. So what gives?? Why does the Explorer have this bad rap..?? I owned a 91',,Explorer was a 4.L,,4 dr.,,had the manual shift transfer case, and hubs,,was a good vehicle,comfy to drive too, unfortunately,,was the time in my life when divorce was on the horizon, and well the Explorer was doomed, to go down the road. My Bro-inlaw has a 97' Explorer with almost 200k on it,,been a great vehicle.
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Yes, Gm does not make very safe vehicles. Even the Caddy isn't regarded as the safest. But i disagree with the comment about the vans. They might not rollover as much, but thay are smaller and pretty tinny- that is they really crumple. I would rather know that my explorer isn't a mustang and not drive it like it is one, and if more people did that, there would be fewer rollovers. Also, out of all the accidents you see driving down the road, very few are actually rollover. Now this might be different for you in rural areas, where you go off the road, but IMO rollovers aren't as prevalent as the media makes them seem.
But anyway, the blazer did the worst in the crash test, along with the GM vans. The GM cars did pretty badly too, look at Saturn. I guess those plastic side panels aren't as good as they thought! www.iihs.org
But anyway, the blazer did the worst in the crash test, along with the GM vans. The GM cars did pretty badly too, look at Saturn. I guess those plastic side panels aren't as good as they thought! www.iihs.org
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Not standing up for GM but it would have been nice if the Insurance Institute would have more specific information as was pointed out at the bottom. Like if there was mechanical failture,tire failture and such. Or whether or not they were wearing seatbelts, Drinking, Or was run into by another vehicle. I posted that article thinking it was a good piece and it was but i failed to really take the time to really understand that it was not as specific as it should be on the causes that contribute to the Blazer being the deadlist vehicle.
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This was covered over in the Excursion forum a few days ago.
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/s...d.php?t=355883
There's some question as to the validity of the data sample- note the huge spread in death rates of some "similiar" vehicles (eg. Crown Vic vs. Grand Marquis).
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/s...d.php?t=355883
There's some question as to the validity of the data sample- note the huge spread in death rates of some "similiar" vehicles (eg. Crown Vic vs. Grand Marquis).
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