The safest SUVs: Bigger isn't better
Posted: Nov 25th 2007 1:16PM by Rigel Celeste
Filed under: Healthy Products and Reviews

There's always been a general consensus when it comes to safe vehicles that bigger is safer, but that's really not the case. Not only is bigger not safer, in some cases it's actually more dangerous to drive a larger vehicle. The Ford Excursion, for example, had 3 times the death rate of the smaller Excursion and twice that of the mid-sized Explorer (it's now a discontinued model). To help us all figure this out
Forbes has compiled all the data from crash test ratings, available electronic stability control, and accident avoidance statistics to come up with a list of
the 15 safest SUVs, and here are the top 5:
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