
The Ford F-Series pickup was involved in over 10,000 crashes over the past 5 years, making the top-selling pickup the most dangerous vehicle in America, according to a new report from ValuePenguin.com by LendingTree. Obviously, the top-selling vehicles have more opportunities to be involved in an accident.
The Ford F-150 was involved in 10,845 fatal crashes over the past five years. Rounding out the five most dangerous behind are the Chevrolet Silverado (7,718 fatal crashes), Honda Accord (5,079 fatal crashes), Toyota Camry (4,734), and Ram Pickup Trucks (5,897 fatal crashes).
The study showed 0.71 Mustang occupants are killed per fatal crash. Other cars where occupants did not fare well in fatal crashes include the Ford Taurus (0.7 occupants killed), the Honda Civic (0.7 occupants killed), the Ford Ranger (0.68 occupants killed) and the Ford Ranger (0.68 occupants killed).
While the deadliest individual models were pickups and SUVs, passenger cars are still involved in more crashes than any other type of passenger vehicle. A total of 100,388 passenger cars were involved in fatal crashes over the past five years. Pickups and SUVs are involved in 42,774, and 41,207, fatal crashes respectively. Minivans were in just 11,006 fatal crashes.
Motorcycles account for 10 percent of fatal crashes, despite making up only 3 percent of registered vehicles. Additionally, the number of motorcycle occupants killed per crash is a staggering 0.98. This means that if a motorcyclist is involved in a fatal crash, the motorcyclist or their passenger is killed nearly every time.
Cars between 10 and 15 years old are involved in the most fatal crashes, while newer models were involved in fewer crashes.
The Deadliest Vehicles in the United States |
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Rank |
Make |
Model |
Total fatal |
Units sold |
Occupants killed per vehicle |
1 |
Ford |
F-Series |
10,845 |
909,330 |
0.46 |
2 |
Chevrolet |
Silverado |
7,718 |
585,581 |
0.47 |
3 |
Honda |
Accord |
5,079 |
291,071 |
0.65 |
4 |
Toyota |
Camry |
4,734 |
343,439 |
0.59 |
5 |
Ram |
Pickup |
5,897 |
536,980 |
0.43 |
6 |
Honda |
Civic |
4,397 |
325,760 |
0.7 |
7 |
Toyota |
Corolla |
3,430 |
303,732 |
0.64 |
8 |
Ford |
Explorer |
3,332 |
261,571 |
0.61 |
9 |
Nissan |
Altima |
3,267 |
209,146 |
0.6 |
10 |
GMC |
Sierra |
3,245 |
219,554 |
0.48 |
11 |
Chevrolet |
Impala |
2,804 |
56,556 |
0.68 |
12 |
Ford |
Ranger |
2,476 |
Not sold in 2018 |
0.68 |
13 |
Chevrolet |
Malibu |
2,345 |
144,542 |
0.64 |
14 |
Jeep |
Grand Cherokee |
2,304 |
224,908 |
0.52 |
15 |
Ford |
Focus |
2,256 |
114,045 |
0.68 |
16 |
Chevrolet |
Tahoe |
2,113 |
104,152 |
0.5 |
17 |
Ford |
Mustang |
1,963 |
75,842 |
0.71 |
18 |
Ford |
Taurus |
1,913 |
40,341 |
0.7 |
19 |
Chevrolet |
Gmt-400 |
1,851 |
Not sold in 2018 |
0.63 |
20 |
Toyota |
Tacoma |
1,763 |
245,659 |
0.54 |
21 |
Ford |
Escape |
1,700 |
272,228 |
0.52 |
22 |
Nissan |
Sentra |
1,561 |
213,046 |
0.67 |
23 |
Ford |
Fusion |
1,550 |
173,600 |
0.53 |
24 |
Honda |
Cr-V |
1,526 |
379,013 |
0.53 |
25 |
Jeep |
Wrangler |
1,513 |
240,032 |
0.51 |