UK study: SUV buyers undeterred by pedestrian‑safety warnings
Studies : "Your SUV is more likely to kill someone, especially a child" SUV drivers : "Meh"
Leslie 🐾🌱🌈15Those things are idiotic, none of us need to be driving tanks. Bring back small cars. My parents, 2 siblings and I fit fine in a Renault 5, growing up in the 80s and 90s.
Von Neely6Cute how they think SUV owners are capable of caring about anyone but themselves.
Russell England 6From the British Medical Journal in April 2025
nearlytoolate5Not a surprise. No one thinks they will be driving into kids. We’re all above average drivers right? (And they are partly bought to protect the kids inside)
rb-citizen 🌏🦘 🇵🇸🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍉4We had design rules for cars that would protect pedestrians - crushable impact zones, frontal areas designed to have any person hit end up on the bonnet, not under the car. Bring back those rules, for all vehicles.
Connie L🇨🇦 🇺🇦🌈🌲🐝 Living with COPD4Double their insurance, plates, registration. Make it financially hard for them to keep these big heavy vehicles on the roads. Not to mention they wreck and destroy the roads
Anatole LG 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇧🇩🇪🇫🇷4Mostly old white men ( and their female counterparts) who like the feel of power and potency to make them feel superior to the underdogs in their cheap small cars. Same in Germany. They're all driving cars they cannot even use properly! Most of them don't even know how to operate them properly 🙈
Spartacuss - 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 🇨🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇪🇺 🏴4It would be helpful to understand which cars they classify in as SUV. My Ioniq 5 is classified as a compact crossover SUV. But to look at its sloping bonnet and to drive it you wouldn't think it has any relationship with an SUV except a slightly higher driving position and maybe width.
candidesgarden.bsky.social3I stood in front of a lifted pickup at my gym. The driver couldn't see me if I was within 5 feet of the front bumper. I'm 6' 3". They should be difficult to insure and there should be height restrictions.
ISman3SUV , sports utility villain
dpengelly.bsky.social3It needs to be a formal safety rating vehicle and vehicles that are in the high risk area, must display a viable warning on the dash. With the rating it is likely insurers will apply rates appropriate to the risk.
Bumm0r 2Many are otherwise undetected psychopaths bsky.app/profile/char...
Angelo Giganti2I would’ve preferred to buy a car recently. But if they’re gonna keep on putting speed bumps that bottom out vehicles, even if they’re going exactly the speed limit, I couldn’t take that risk. I got an SUV to adapt to the new urban landscape of speed bumps everywhere.
Ross2Add the fashionable in Australia ‘bull bar’ and double the likelihood
wizardpug.bsky.social2Tax the fuck out of them. Simple. Too large. Too dangerous and probably cause too much damage to the roads.
Felix Mousecatcher2With one exception I have owned cars in the conventional sense of the meaning -- from small Minis through to Bentley. Great cars. The exception was a Range Rover. A curiosity quickly abandoned. Terrible driving experience. Lots of guesswork and nagging fear of hitting something small. Never again.
#SUVs: The psychopath's choice. “Buying whatever vehicle we like, and driving it wherever and whenever we please without having to think about the consequences for other people, has become normalised and ingrained across our society over decades." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
LibLabGreen Barbara8While being the loudest and most numerous complainers about potholes, SUV drivers are the biggest cause of damage to roads, especially the electric or battery powered ones.
Richard Osborne7Maybe if you have chosen to drive a vehicle which is proven to be more dangerous, that should be reflected in sentencing if you do cause harm.
An Old Man2People think they have a right. It's selfishness and egoism that have become engrained.
Paris tripled parking charges for SUVs in 2024 after a vote by residents. Transport for London is considering whether to impose extra charges for SUVs in the UK capital, in part because of the greater risks they pose to others. *End free parking in Port of Spain!* www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
R. Wm. "Ruedii" 🦊🐧 🥖🔞3Increasing parking fees is one way to reduce downtown traffic in places. The other major one is to increase the number of pedestrian-only streets (or at least have some).
English Teacher2SUVs only exist because auto industry got an exempt from the fuel efficiency require congress passed in the 70’s! Claimed suvs were farm vehicles. Then the auto industry spent 40 years & 90% of their advertising budgets to claim they were safer & family vehicles. 1 more example of corporate greed.
Shocked, shocked to learn that 4x4 drivers generally don’t care how dangerous their vehicles are. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Sean Wallis3As a London cyclist, I am often concerned at the safety of 4x4 drivers (parked or moving). But for a long time the main menace used to be Prius drivers. There are a number of possible reasons for this. Subjectively, it appeared that they had paid so much for the vehicle that they owned the road.
Dave2They should be required by law to wear hi-vis vests at all times
