To some extent but not a large extent. SUVs tend to be less safe than their sedan counterparts. Worse on rollovers, worse on emergency handling, and much worse

To some extent but not a large extent. SUVs tend to be less safe than their sedan counterparts. Worse on rollovers, worse on emergency handling, and much worse on visibility. You might survive a crash better in an SUV, but you're more likely to get into a crash with an SUV, canceling out any gains and quite possibly eroding even further into loss of safety. One of the only things that makes SUVs safer is their greater mass, which largely serves to make the road less safe for collisions with non-SUV drivers. With regard to vehicle size, I observed back in the 1990s when the SUV craze began that America was in a war of size attrition with itself. Even a Mini Cooper is quite survivable in a crash. Crumple zones and airbags are not just standard issue on gargantuan vehicles.