SUVs ‘eight times more dangerous’ to kids walking or cycling than smaller cars are | road.cc
US study found SUVs were involved in much fewer crashes than standard cars – but in twice as many fatal ones
Published in the Journal of Safety Research, the study comes at a time when such vehicles are getting increasingly large, and as SUVs make up an increasingly large proportion of new cars sold especially in affluent urban areas.
Many are bough by parents, with SUVs being seen – and widely promoted – as the perfect vehicle for families with children, but researchers from the University of Illinois in Springfield have established that they are posing an increasing danger to kids, or at least those on the outside of the vehicle.
