Fatality information in U.S. for several popular cars
Safety statistics appearing in a January 12th, 2004 issue of the New Yorker showing fatality rates per million vehicles both for drivers of a car, and drivers of other cars that are hit.
data(carsafety)
A data frame with 33 observations on the following 4 variables.
The make and model of the car
Type of car
Number of drivers deaths per year if 1,000,000 cars were on the road
Number of deaths in other vehicle caused by accidents involving these cars per year if 1,000,000 cars were on the road
The article this data came from wishes to make the case that SUVs are not safer despite a perception among the U.S. public that they are.
From "Big and Bad" by Malcolm Gladwell. New Yorker, Jan. 12 2004 pp28-33. Data attributed to Tom Wenzel and Marc Ross who have written http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/assets/images/2002/Aug-26-2002/SUV-report.pdf.
data(carsafety) plot(Driver.deaths + Other.deaths ~ type, data = carsafety) plot(Driver.deaths + Other.deaths ~ type, data = carsafety)
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