100 LC death rates

[patrickfinley]

Interesting article on death rates per vehicle as tested in 2001-2004. While nothing specific about the 100 LC, 3 of the 16 lowest death rates per vehicle are Toyota SUV's. Toyota 4Runner, Toyota Highlander and Toyota Sequoia. Toyota and Lexus have a total of 6 out of the 16 safest cars. I would imagine our LC if tested would fit in there nicely.

http://www.iihs.org/externaldata/srdata/docs/sr4204.pdf

Some of the key points to safe vehicles are:

Weight, heavier the better (not sure if additional after market weight applies)
Air bags and Side Curtain Airbags (option in 03 and newer)
Electronic traction control (00 or 01 and newer)
Speed, slow is good. (all of em)

The only downside as pertaining to safety is the risk of roll over. The Ford Excursion has a high rate of fatalities, most likely due to roll over accidents.

 

[patrickfinley]

Here is some more interesting data. The HLDI which helps insurance agencies determine coverage for vehicles shows the 2004-2006 LC is highly rated as far as "Personal Injury Loss". Of all sizes and classes of SUV's and Luxury SUV's the LC gets the #3 spot. It is only slightly beat out by 2 Range Rovers. It is also among the highest rated of all vehicles on the road.

HLDI: Insurance losses by make and model

As far as comprehensive ratings it sucks, be we know this thing ain't cheap to fix.

 

[Kigiin]

The average price of the lowest death rate list vs the highest death rate list looks to be rather significant. Think it's directly rated to safety of the vehicles (probably), and/or the people buying cars/trucks in the highest list tend to be worse drivers (maybe).

I rolled a 99 LX at 70mph (only rolled once thankfully) and I drove away. The truck was totaled but I still drove away, and back home to Ohio (300 miles). Body shop owner bought it from insurance company and repaired it for wife to drive another 5 years.

 

[Yukon LX]

It is interesting the the LC and the LX have different personal injury #s.

 

[Fitzgerald]

This thread is still less depressing than the "how much do you spend on gas" thread.

 

[patrickfinley]

It is interesting the the LC and the LX have different personal injury #s.

It's based off statistics, so perhaps there's been more reported accidents in one vs the other.

The average price of the lowest death rate list vs the highest death rate list looks to be rather significant. Think it's directly rated to safety of the vehicles (probably), and/or the people buying cars/trucks in the highest list tend to be worse drivers (maybe).

1. Safety of the vehicles
2. Attitude of the drivers

Could we assume in genaral that "more expensive car" = older more responsible driver?

 

[Yukon LX]

I guess there are more old ladies driving their LX's off the road.

 

[jemsec]

I'll get killed for this but more women drive LX's than LC's. Could that account for the difference?

 

[lizardking100]

I'll get killed for this but more women drive LX's than LC's. Could that account for the difference?

The statistics behind Toyota's sudden-uncontrolled-acceleration phenomenon had a distinct and overwhelming gender-based "anomaly." Apparently female drivers reported sudden-uncontrolled-acceleration events ~3:1 over male drivers.

Similarly, the Nissan 350z is not a dangerous car.

 

[gtfour43]

The average price of the lowest death rate list vs the highest death rate list looks to be rather significant. Think it's directly rated to safety of the vehicles (probably), and/or the people buying cars/trucks in the highest list tend to be worse drivers (maybe).

I rolled a 99 LX at 70mph (only rolled once thankfully) and I drove away. The truck was totaled but I still drove away, and back home to Ohio (300 miles). Body shop owner bought it from insurance company and repaired it for wife to drive another 5 years.

This is crazy. Any pics?

 

[Trunk Monkey]

Can we please keep this 100 series specific?

 

[patrickfinley]

Steering back..... If you click the link I posted earlier and look at the "personal injury protection" column you'll see what a great score the LC gets. The lower the score the better.

HLDI: Insurance losses by make and model

As for my 1st post, I was generalizing that the LC would probably score right in there with the Toyota 4Runner, Toyota Highlander and Toyota Sequoia as far as safety is concerned.

It's a shame there is just so little data existing for safety of our LC/LX vehicles. Other than the positive accounts I've heard so far on this thread.

 

[LCbruiser2000]

I'll get killed for this but more women drive LX's than LC's. Could that account for the difference?

ha! maybe

I'm a chick and I rolled my 4runner 3x at 70mph when it lost control over black ice. Truck was totaled, but still didn't look that bad all things considering.

I'm assuming the LC would do much better in the same scenario since it's almost 2x as heavy and more dense.