The increase in the height of car bonnets on SUVs and other luxury models means that this risk has returned. Research carried out for Clean Cities shows that a 10cm increase in bonnet height from 80cm to 90cm results in a 27% greater chance of death for pedestrians run over. For children, the risk of death is increased threefold if they are hit by an SUV rather than a conventional vehicle. They are also more likely to be hit since the driving position is often too high to observe what is in front of the vehicle.
For children, the risk of death is increased threefold
And this is not enough reason to ban them?
No, who cares about children? As long grandma at 96 can still ““safely”” drive around why not have them drive a tank?
Children only matter when we can push surveillance to ““protect”” them
But “gEtTiNG a bIG sUv KEePs mY FaMiLy sAfEr”.
Nobody’s gonna be safer until you get those monstrosities off the streets.
Most people don’t even use their car to transport more than one person.
All children yearn to die in glorious combat with a SUV.
As there is, remarkably, no width restriction for cars
defuq?
That’s what you get for leaving the EU.
(afaics, European Union has defined the max width as being 2.55m)
The article says the max in UK is 2.55 too.
Research carried out for Clean Cities shows that a 10cm increase in bonnet height from 80cm to 90cm results in a 27% greater chance of death for pedestrians run over.
Ironically the reason for the increase in bonnet height was actually EU safety regulations which required car makers to increase the gap between the bonnet. This was because when a pedestrian got hit and their head hit the bonnet there was very little gap between that and the solid engine underneath so their head was effectively hitting the solid engine. The idea of increasing the gap was that it allowed the bonnet to deform more, dissipating the energy and reducing the trauma the head experienced.
I very much doubt this. If a pedestrian gets hit by an older fla car, his whole torso is above the bonnet and he will slide across it and perhaps hit the windshield, or fall off. Still high danger of serious injury, bit less dangerous than with a SUV.
I survived an accident exactly like that with a big bruise on the tight - as an eleven year old child. I doubt that I would have had any chance with one of these monster cars.
But didn’t the UK have a referendum deciding children were not the future?
