How safe is your car? More on car accidents...

(Photo source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_accident )


Have you ever wondered about the safety features of your car?



I have just experienced a car accident recently (See http://raffysaldana.blogspot.com/2007/08/do-you-know-what-to-do-after-car.html )

My car is a lightweight Honda City sedan model 2006. The car that hit me is a Volvo sedan. What are the chances of being a casualty (i.e., death) when a Honda car collide with a Volvo car?

Here is what Wikipedia has to say:

(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_accident )

"A car accident or car crash is an incident in which an automobile collides with anything that causes damage to the automobile, including other automobiles, telephone poles, buildings or trees, or in which the driver loses control of the vehicle and damages it in some other way, such as driving into a ditch or rolling over. Sometimes a car accident may also refer to an automobile striking a human or animal. Car crashes — also called road traffic accidents (RTAs), traffic collisions, auto accidents, road accidents, personal injury collisions, motor vehicle accidents (MVAs), — kill an estimated 1.2 million people worldwide each year, and injure about forty times this number (WHO, 2004). "

"In the UK the Department of Transport publish road deaths in each type of vehicle. These statistics are available as "Risk of injury measured by percentage of drivers injured in a two car injury accident." These statistics show a ten to one ratio of in-vehicle accident deaths between the least safe and most safe models of car.

The statistics show[citation needed] that for popular, lightly built cars, occupants have a 6–8% chance of death in a two-car accident. (e.g. BMW 3 series 6%, Subaru Impreza 8%, Honda Accord 6%). Traditional "safety cars" such as the Volvos halve that chance (Volvo 700 4% incidence of death, Volvo 900 3%)."


What is the moral of the story? If your car is just a Honda City sedan NEVER go near a Volvo car when driving! (The chances of dying in a car collision when you are in a Honda city sedan is DOUBLE than the chance of death when you are in a Volvo sedan).