| Sales of Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) have | | | | are. Automakers do not go out of their way |
| sky-rocketed in the United States, accounting | | | | to improve their products or alert consumers |
| for over 25 percent of all new-vehicle sales | | | | to their dangers, and this combined with a |
| in 2004 and representing almost 14 percent of | | | | false sense of security that larger vehicles |
| all registered vehicles in the nation, with | | | | are safer make them deadly killing |
| more than 22 million on the road. Many buyers | | | | machines.Pedestrians share the roadways with |
| ironically cite safety issues for their | | | | motorists and have the right of way, but no |
| decision, claiming that they feel more | | | | person can stand up to a car that is |
| protected because they are larger, heavier | | | | barreling down on them. Physics will |
| and higher than cars. Unfortunately, when it | | | | prevail, and pedestrian knockdowns are |
| comes to rollover accidents - the leading | | | | becoming more and more common now that the |
| cause of death on America's highways - SUVs | | | | roads are more and more clogged. Many |
| are among the riskiest vehicles driven today. | | | | pedestrians knocked down by cars suffer |
| New fatality statistics show that over 12,000 | | | | extensive injuries such to their head, spine, |
| people died last year in rollovers, with SUVs | | | | bones, internal organs, and general |
| averaging the highest rate at nearly 62 | | | | health.Being paralyzed is one of the worst |
| percent.Americans penchant for large SUVs | | | | possible outcomes that can come out of a car |
| make the roads even more dangerous than they | | | | accident. Paralysis occurs when the vital |
| should be. These large vehicles with a | | | | nerves that control various body parts are |
| narrow and unstable wheel base combined with | | | | damaged or severed. This usually happens |
| a high center of gravity and poor safety | | | | when there is a traumatic impact to the neck |
| design kill thousands of people each year | | | | or spinal cord. |
| because few understand how dangerous they | | | | |