This seems like relevant data. Particularly the "Driver deaths per million registered passenger vehicles" broken down by size in larger categories of car, picku

This seems like relevant data. Particularly the "Driver deaths per million registered passenger vehicles" broken down by size in larger categories of car, pickup, SUV. Though I think they mix the data a bit w.r.t the contribution of mass vs volume. http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalityfacts/passenger-vehicles http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/t/general-statistics/fatalit... It seems like if you are in an accident, an SUV as a class is indeed safer (but not necessarily the largest SUV interestingly enough). But the other thing that this data doesn't seem to say is if one class of vehicle has a higher accident rate than another. Without that it's difficult to say for sure if one is safer driving around one type of vehicle or another.