‘Supersize SUVs much more likely to cause fatal injury to cyclists and pedestrians’

Elsa Robinson, who worked on the study as an MSc public health student at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: “Analysing over half a million crashes from countries from across the world tells us that SUVs and other similarly large vehicles are much more likely than traditional passenger cars to cause serious harm if they strike a pedestrian or cyclist.