I believe you're correct, but in the interest of drilling into this a bit - it looks like the models that cause the most pedestrian fatalities are pickups, but SUVs as a whole are responsible for more overall deaths (based on 2021 data): https://data.bikeleague.org/new-nhtsa-data-vehicle-data-show...
Pickups here making up about one in six of pedestrian deaths, and a little less than one in five bicyclist deaths.
The F350 specifically is down a ways on the list, and I don't think Ford breaks their sales data down by specific model, but it does seem overrepresented vs the F150. Especially given that the F150 is more designed for "everyday" driving, so should have more miles, especially in areas where pedestrians are.
> it looks like the models that cause the most pedestrian fatalities are pickups, but SUVs as a whole are responsible for more overall deaths.
It's all just a data mess and really hard to pull anything useful out of i.
A bunch of SUVs are basically Schrodinger's car. Is a Chevy Suburban an SUV or a pickup? The part that hits you is basically a Silverado 1500. You don't know what bucket to put it in until you know what narrative you want. Ditto for many, many other models.
And this complexity is then compounded by all the SUVs that are basically cars, Nissan Kicks and the like. But they're taller than historical cars, but their hoodlines aren't actually that much taller than current cars, which adopted their styling in part because of european pedestrian safety.
And then when you look at historical data it gets weird too. Is a 2005 Outback an SUV. Most would say no, but Subaru marketed it that way because it was 2005 and SUVs were cool. But a 2015 Outback is pretty clearly SUV. There's also been huge changes in the SUV market over time.
IDK what to make of it. We should probably be focusing on limiting car to pedestrian contact in the first place.
>The F350 specifically is down a ways on the list, and I don't think Ford breaks their sales data down by specific model.
350/3500 trucks get weird because on one hand you have DRW cab and chassis that get turned into dump trucks and box trucks and stuff and those are basically indistinguishable from medium duty trucks as far as usage is concerned but on the low end it's still a single rear wheel pickup basically indistinguishable from a 250/2500 so you've really got two trucks there.
Pickups here making up about one in six of pedestrian deaths, and a little less than one in five bicyclist deaths.
The F350 specifically is down a ways on the list, and I don't think Ford breaks their sales data down by specific model, but it does seem overrepresented vs the F150. Especially given that the F150 is more designed for "everyday" driving, so should have more miles, especially in areas where pedestrians are.