PIG - READ THIS!

Reality check:

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Light trucks, especially pickups and to a lesser extent SUVs, are
responsible for the deaths of many people in other vehicles, as shown by the
vertical scale in Figures 2 and 3. This result supports earlier findings by
Joksch (2000, pp. 9-10), who examined the outcomes of two-vehicle crashes
reported by the police. He found that there are twice as many deaths in
car-to-pickup crashes as in car-to-car crashes and 1.8 as many deaths in
SUV-to-car crashes as in car-to-car crashes. The pattern in car-to-truck
crashes is that people die in the truck somewhat less often than in
car-to-car crashes, while people die in the car much more often.
Nevertheless, trucks are not safer than cars: SUV and pickup users are at
unusually high risk of death in one-vehicle crashes, such that drivers of
average SUVs face the same risk as drivers of average midsize and large cars
while drivers of average pickups face the same risk as drivers of average
compact and subcompact cars. A substantial part of the risks light trucks
impose on other drivers is associated with the design of trucks (Gabler and
Hollowell 1998; Hollowell and Gabler1996; Joksch 1998, 2000)."