More than 125,000 occupants of passenger vehicles died in crashes during 2002-05. Most were drivers. The impacts varied from single-vehicle rollovers on rural roads to multiple-vehicle pileups in urban traffic.
Something else that varied was the risk of dying in one vehicle versus another. Some cars, minivans, SUVs, and pickup trucks have much higher driver death rates than others. The average rate in 2001-04 models during 2002-05 was 79 per million registered vehicle years. But the rates in some models were more than twice as high, while rates in other vehicles were only a fraction of the average.
Chevrolet models take prizes for both best and worst. The lowest death rate among more than 200 vehicles is the Astro minivan's 7 per million registered vehicle years. The highest is 232 per million in the 2-door, 2-wheel-drive version of the Chevrolet Blazer, a midsize SUV.
Via: Medialink Press-Release