godot
Light trucks (and by extension, SUVs based on their chassis) are still not required by U.S. law to offer similar crash protection (crumple zones, hard passenger cages) that passenger cars do. Fatality rates for single truck accidents and truck/truck collisions are high enough that they aren't any safer than cars, though they do increase death rates for smaller vehicles by riding over the crumple zones.

We're it not for the massive (and largely unneccessary) number of truck-based SUVs in suburbia, you'd be a lot safer in a SmartCar than an F-150.

takewithfood
This.

It was like something out of a cheesy movie trailer.