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Which Popular Cars Get Into Accidents Most Frequently?

Heepsy puts together a sort of crash index

By Rain Noe - March 11

in Cars

Marketing platform Heepsy has put together a strange report: Out of the "most hyped cars on Instagram," which models are most frequently involved in accidents? The company pored over hashtags, sales figures and crash data to determine an odd metric: "Crashes per 10,000 Sold Cars."

The data is fairly startling: The most-crashed car on the list is not a sports car, and has a crash margin that dwarfs the runner-up. The ignominious award goes to the Fiat 500, which clocked 968.6 crashes per 10,000 units sold.

The distant runner-up is the BMW M5, with just 18.3 crashes.

Crash frequency apparently has little to do with brand. While the M5 ranked second, its M3 stablemate is at the bottom of the list, with just 0.3 crashes.

Chevy can claim bragging rights in the marketing and sales column. The Corvette is the most-hashtagged at 3,524,849 (crash rate 6.8), more than a million hashtags ahead of the number 2 Jeep Wrangler at 2,280,417 (crash rate 5.4).

And Chevy's Silverado is the bestselling vehicle on the list, at 10,669,565 units moved (crash rate 9.0), with the Honda Civic coming in a distant second at 5,872,044 (crash rate 8.5).

I can't get over the Fiat 500's far-and-away leading numbers for accidents, and am hungry for an explanation: Does that car attract inattentive drivers? Is it so small that it's difficult for other vehicles to see it? Or is it because the Fiat 500 is designed for congested urban environments, where fender benders are simply a fact of life?

Image: Vladimir Vinogradov on Unsplash

If you want to see the entire spreadsheet, it's here.

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Marko Mrdjenovič

16 hours ago

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The research and thus the conclusions are wrong. The first hint is that the linked spreadsheet shows 20 crashes in 2022 and 6565 in 2021 for the Fiat 500 - this indicates some sort of analytical mistake. Camaro on the other hand shows around 200 for all years analysed.

Going through the raw data available at https://www.nhtsa.gov/file-downloads?p=nhtsa/downloads/CRSS/ shows 54 reports for all Fiat 500 variants (regular, C, L, X) in 2022 and 48 reports in 2021.

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Derek Chan

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I think it has to do with how many are actually sold. I suspect the low BMW M3 numbers are due to how few people wanted a car with that fugly grill.

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