Online Vehicle Insurance, Study finds nine models with zero driver fatalities
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the research arm of the nation’s auto insurance companies, studied driver deaths between 2009 and 2012 for mass-market vehicles. (It did not examine passenger deaths due to unreliable data.) Overall, it found that new models with newer technology, especially stability control, had cut the overall death rate in vehicles by a third in the three years since it had last run the numbers. Had vehicle tech been frozen at 1985 levels, the IIHS estimates by 2012 an additional 7,700 people would have died in crashes.
Vehicle |
Deaths per million registered vehicle years |
Multi-vehicle crashes | Single-vehicle crashes | Rollovers |
Audi A4 4WD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Honda Odyssey | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kia Sorento 2WD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Lexus RX 350 4WD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mercedes-Benz GL-Class 4WD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Subaru Legacy 4WD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Toyota Highlander hybrid 4WD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Toyota Sequoia 4WD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Volvo XC90 4WD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |