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Sport utility vehicles are no better than regular cars when it comes to protecting children, a U.S. study reports.

Dr. Dennis Durbin, a pediatric emergency physician...Partners for Child Passenger Safety study, published in the journal Pediatrics...says the chances of receiving a serious injury in an accident are:

• Three per cent for an appropriately restrained child in an SUV.
• Less than two per cent for an appropriately restrained child in a car.

The study goes against the popular wisdom that SUVs are safer than smaller vehicles.
"We assumed, as I think most consumers do, that because of the larger size and heavier weight of the SUVs, that they would naturally be safer," Durbin says.
The added weight and size do make a difference, but that's offset because SUVs roll over 2.5 times more commonly than cars, and the chance of a child being hurt in a rollover accident is three times greater, Durbin said.

3% versus less than 2% doesn't equal "no better than".
The article finishes up with

"Vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for U.S. children between 2 and 14..."

Depending on where you go for the numbers it's either that or people under 30, or 25.
Between 2 and 14, though, that's great. In a country that foams at the mouth when a coed disappears on vacation in Aruba, the greatest killer of children is a gas-wasting 2-ton projectile that everybody's willing to go into debt to get, and finance an illegitimate war to fuel.
Random death for children too, nothing about it Darwinian, so it has to be the hand of God. Who else would we give the awesome responsibility of selecting which of our children should die?
The article presents facts and conclusions, the facts say SUV's are more dangerous to children than cars, the conclusions say they're equally dangerous.
I say the whole thing's bollocks and bad cess.
The SUV-lust was manufactured and distributed by the same dark force that created the current excitement in Iraq. Same guys same idea same result.
Though the study was done in the US, the information is presented by CBC, a Canadian news outlet, so you should probably wait until someone American you can trust, like FOX or CNN, confirms it.