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12/28/2004 Entry: ""too much car""

It's news to the Washington Post that teenagers die in SUV crashes

Forty-nine people ages 15 to 20 died in SUV and pickup truck accidents in Maryland, Virginia and the District last year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The problem, researchers say, is that SUVs have a higher center of gravity and are harder to control in an emergency, which makes inexperienced teenage drivers more vulnerable.

This isn't a very good statistic, since some of those 49 young people may have been passengers. Also, it doesn't include the total death toll the young drivers may be responsible for when their larger vehicles squash smaller cars. A better statistc would have been something along the lines of "XXX people were killed by drivers aged 15 to 20, which includes YY of the drivers".