They're not the smallest vehicles on the road, but the way muscle cars tend to be driven is likely behind the higher fatality rates, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study says.
We've long heard that smaller vehicles are more dangerous for occupants in a crash, and IIHS's latest driver death rate study again confirms this fact.
The IIHS's working theory is that muscle-car drivers are inclined to drive more aggressively, which is why these vehicles are involved in more deaths than similarly powerful luxury vehicles. IIHS focuses on driver deaths in these triennial surveys for a reason: it allows for an apples-to-apples comparison because "all vehicles on the road have drivers, but not all of them have passengers or the same number of passengers," IIHS said in its release. Driver death rates are another way to understand a vehicle's real-world safety capabilities alongside crash tests and ratings.
"We typically find that smaller vehicles have high driver death rates because they don't provide as much protection, especially in crashes with larger, heavier SUVs and pickups," IIHS president David Harkey shared the organization's theory that "The muscle cars on this list highlight that a vehicle's image and how it is marketed can also contribute to crash risk."
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