Michael McKelvy wrote:

"Paul Dormer" wrote in message
...

"They make an entirely unnecessary contribution to one of the biggest
environmental problems we face - global warming - and there's a huge
and unacknowledged health crisis which results from vehicle
emissions."

"They sell themselves as the vehicle version of a gated community,
intended to make people feel safe, when in fact they're a greater
danger to pedestrians, other road users and the drivers themselves."

" According to a study by the US Insurance Institute for Highway
Safety there are many more deaths from crashes involving SUVs than in
any other vehicles."

"For all crashes between cars and pickups or cars and SUVs, people in
cars are about four times more likely to die than people inside
pickups or SUVs," the report concludes.

Then the answer is obvious, everybody should drive an SUV.

That's just silly.

From the same source....

" The evidence on whether people inside the SUV are better or worse off is
a bit more difficult, though the US National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration has found that SUV drivers have a higher rate of death per
kilometre travelled than drivers of conventional cars.

Some SUVs are prone to roll over in a crash, the administration found. "


Graham