This seems like relevant data. Particularly the &quot;Driver deaths per million registered passenger vehicles&quot; broken down by size in larger categories of car, pickup, SUV. Though I think they mix the data a bit w.r.t the contribution of mass vs volume.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iihs.org&#x2F;iihs&#x2F;topics&#x2F;t&#x2F;general-statistics&#x2F;fatalityfacts&#x2F;passenger-vehicles" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iihs.org&#x2F;iihs&#x2F;topics&#x2F;t&#x2F;general-statistics&#x2F;fatalit...</a><p>It seems like if you are in an accident, an SUV as a class is indeed safer (but not necessarily the largest SUV interestingly enough). But the other thing that this data doesn&#x27;t seem to say is if one class of vehicle has a higher accident rate than another. Without that it&#x27;s difficult to say for sure if one is safer driving around one type of vehicle or another.