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when looking at accidents, especially fatals, take note of the cars and vehicles involved. l work in the repair industry and note the different effects on vehicles depending on what they hit.
very few fatalities happen when two cars of similar design hit each other, it is generally when two vehicles with different designs collide, that being car/truck, small cars/4W.D's or cars designed in different eras.
two cars designed 20 years apart will have vastly different damage after they hit each other with the majority of bodily damage done to the driver/passanger of the older vehicle.
take for example the blanket rule that when travelling behind the car in front we leave x ammount of room for braking, do the powers that be tell anyone take into account what sort of car you are travelling behind?
anyone in a twenty year old vehicle is not going to stop in the same ammount of time or distance as a new car, the discrepency in vehicle design, size and performance all crammed onto the same road is what is killing people not a lazy 10 k's over the speed limit, l see it every day.
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