How the size of your wallet protects you in a car crash

Published July 6, 2015 This content is archived.

An article on Yahoo Autos reports on a new UB study that found a correlation between accidents in which personal injury claims are filed and the size and price of the vehicles involved, and quotes Dietrich Jehle, professor of emergency medicine in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. “We found that vehicle type, curb weight and price all are significant predictors of personal injury costs,” he said. “For every additional $10,000 you spend, injuries go down by almost 12 percent. We also found that for every 1,000-pound increase in weight, vehicles were 19 percent safer.”

https://www.yahoo.com/autos/how-the-size-of-your-wallet-protects-you-in-a-car-123390976917.html