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SUV accidents can be extremely dangerous. The physical make up, short wheelbase and a high center of gravity, make it easily susceptible to rollovers. An example of an accident involving an SUV roll over is described in detail below.

SUV manufacturers, including but not limited to Ford, Toyota and Mercury, have been under intense scrutiny due to SUV rollovers. The propensity of sport utility vehicles to roll over is a major safety concern. Sport utility vehicles are more than three times likely to roll over in a crash than normal passenger cars. The higher rollover propensity also leads to higher fatalities.

According to NHTSA, SUVs rollover in 37 percent of fatal crashes, compared to a 15 percent rollover rate for passenger cars. Rollover crashes accounted for 53 percent of all SUV occupant deaths in single vehicle crashes in 1996. Only 19 percent of occupant fatalities in passenger cars occurred in similar crashes.

Smaller SUVs, with a wheelbase of less than 100 inches, had a disproportionately high incidence of fatal rollover crashes. Small SUVs were involved in rollover crashes more than four times as often as the average passenger car.

The rollover phenomenon is not new, though. Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, along with the Center for Auto Safety and the Safety First Coalition, first reported serious rollover concerns with a small SUV model, the Suzuki Samurai, in 1988. In 1997, Consumers Union also reported that the Isuzu Trooper, Acura SLX, Suzuki Samurai and Ford Bronco II had "shown a significant tendency to tip."

Since 1988, Consumers Union has attempted to convince the government safety agency, NHTSA, to investigate certain SUV models and issue rollover standards for cars and SUVs. NHTSA began to do so, but abandoned efforts to make a universal rollover standard in 1994 concluding that such a standard would require a redesign of nearly all SUVs, vans and pick-up trucks. NHTSA reasoned that the cost for this redesign would be too high.

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