A way to compare the safety of vehicles is to look at the rate of driver death per vehicle. The latest date compiled from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is of 2017 vehicles. From time to time, IIHS researchers compute the rate at which drivers of individual models from a given year are killed in crashes.
The rates shown below are given as the number of driver deaths per million registered Luxury Sports Utility vehicle years. (A registered vehicle year is one vehicle registered for one year.) These calculations only count the deaths of drivers, not passengers, since every Luxury Sports Utility that crashes has a driver, but not every vehicle has passengers.
Vehicle | Overall death rate (with confidence limits) | Multi-vehicle crash death rate | Single-vehicle crash death rate | Rollover death rate | Model year span |
Lexus NX 200t 4WD | 0 (0-28) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2015-17 |
Infiniti QX60 2WD | 0 (0-26) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2014-17 |
Acura RDX 2WD | 4 (0-12) | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2014-17 |
BMW X5 4WD | 4 (0-11) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2014-17 |
BMW X3 4WD | 5 (0-11) | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2014-17 |
Infiniti QX60 4WD | 9 (0-20) | 0 | 9 | 3 | 2014-17 |
Audi Q5 4WD | 12 (0-24) | 4 | 8 | 4 | 2014-17 |
Acura RDX 4WD | 12 (0-27) | 12 | 0 | 0 | 2014-17 |
Lexus NX 200t 2WD | 15 (0-46) | 0 | 15 | 0 | 2015-17 |
Volvo XC60 4WD | 29 (0-66) | 0 | 29 | 25 | 2014-17 |
All 2017 vehicles | 36 (34-37) | 22 | 13 | 5 | 2014-17
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