carsafety {UsingR} | R Documentation

## Fatality information in U.S. for several popular cars

### Description

Safety statistics appearing in a January 12th, 2004 issue of the New Yorker showing fatality rates per million vehicles both for drivers of a car, and drivers of other cars that are hit.

### Usage

    data(carsafety)

### Format

A data frame with 33 observations on the following 4 variables.

Make.model
  The make and model of the car
type
  Type of car
Driver.deaths
  Number of drivers deaths per year if 1,000,000 cars were on the road
Other.deaths
  Number of deaths in other vehicle caused by accidents involving these cars per year if 1,000,000 cars were on the road

### Details

The article this data came from wishes to make the case that SUVs are not safer despite a perception among the U.S. public that they are.

### Source

From "Big and Bad" by Malcolm Gladwell. New Yorker, Jan. 12 2004 pp28-33. Data attributed to Tom Wenzel and Marc Ross who have written http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/assets/images/2002/Aug-26-2002/SUV-report.pdf.

### Examples

    data(carsafety)
    plot(Driver.deaths + Other.deaths ~ type, data = carsafety)
    plot(Driver.deaths + Other.deaths ~ type, data = carsafety)

[Package UsingR version 0.1-4 Index]