The jeeps have one part of the rollover risk mentioned in the book, but they don't generally suffer from the second. The first risk is, of course, the increased risk of rollover.
The second risk is that the larger SUVs (and some of the smaller ones) can't support their own weight after they've rolled over, so the weight of the vehicle collapses the passenger compartment, killing/gravely injuring everyone inside. This collapse is apparently much worse than the similar collapse for non light trucks -- if you'd been driving a ford excursion, you'd have a lesser chance of walking away from that rollover.
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Date: 2003-01-22 01:14 pm (UTC)The second risk is that the larger SUVs (and some of the smaller ones) can't support their own weight after they've rolled over, so the weight of the vehicle collapses the passenger compartment, killing/gravely injuring everyone inside. This collapse is apparently much worse than the similar collapse for non light trucks -- if you'd been driving a ford excursion, you'd have a lesser chance of walking away from that rollover.