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I've always found the star safety ratings confusing especially when I've noticed compact cars getting the same stars as large cars.

I'd like to just see each model ranked by number of fatalities per mile driven. Wouldn't that make a lot more sense?

Is such a statistic available anywhere?

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They exist [1] but can be misleading because different kinds of people buy different kinds of vehicles. So muscle cars and 4x4s have higher crash rates than minivans and economy sedans mainly because of the people that drive them.

[1] http://www.iihs.org/externaldata/srdata/docs/sr4204.pdf

Thanks! I guess you could still use it to compare between say minivans?

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