2. Toyota Corolla
Toyota was considered one of Japan’s biggest automobile manufacturers, and many American citizens loved them for their affordable, fuel-efficient, and solid cars.
One of Toyota’s most popular vehicles, the Corolla, was released in the US in 1968, and many people quickly purchased one. Since its debut in 1966, there have been over 50,000,000 Corollas sold across the entire globe.
However, as good as this car might be, it’s still on our list of the most dangerous ones due to its popularity. For instance, experts reported no less than 3,430 fatal accidents between 2014 and 2018, which can be concerning for someone who’s looking for a new car.
But before you decide to say yes or no to a vehicle, don’t forget to check it for safety, impact, and comfort. Not all accidents happen because of a car, and there are many other factors that play a role too, so make sure you’re always safe.
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I think it is according to the driver.
I have had a F-150 since 2001. That was my 1st then I was able to get another in 2018. I have never had a problem with either of mine they drive fantastic! Definitely not like any truckI had driven before. I think your wreck statistics is probably more human error and not the trucks performance.
My husband drives a diesel 2500 Dodge Ram with a crew cab and a shorter bed. He’s had the truck when he purchased it new in 2004, now it has over 500,000+ miles and it is still running strong today. He purchased it to pull our 2700 ft 5th wheel, complete with a 10 ft garage, that can carry a Smart Car in it. We know this because our good friend has driven his Smart Car up into the drive way ramp at the back of our trailer. It can also be a toy hauler and has an extra queen bed that comes down from the ceiling of garage. It can sleep 10.
Need to consider the total of these auto on road to those involved in fatal accidents. This is bad information once again.
It’s so obvious, if one doesn’t see this article for what it truly is well…
Exactly!!!
It’s not the vehicle (in most cases) that causes the accident it’s driver error
the worst car i every had was a 2002 t-bird . own it for 13 years the last year i own the repairs cost was $12000.00 and it had only 85000 miles on it .trade in value on a mercedes was only $8600.00
I have driven Fords for years and have found them to be reliable and safe.
Yes, including the Explorer!
I’m on my fourth Explorer and I have enjoyed everyone of them.
My first car was a 57 Ford Fairlane 500 when I was 16 years old. I’ve driven Fords close to 60 years now and have never had an issue.
Fix or repair daily is the reputation Fords had until they merged.
I enjoyed your article about unsafe vehicles. I do have a 2004 Ford Explorer, that I bought new in May of that year. I believe that way too many unnecessary vehicle deaths are caused because of government regulations.
CAFE standards are way too strict for car manufactures to make a safe vehicle. I don’t have a safe feeling driving a vehicle made out of plastic,aluminum, & rubber just for better gas mileage. Unreasonable restrictions on the weight and gas mileage for vehicles do not add up for manufacturing safe vehicles. As they say, “You Can’t Your Cake and Eat It Too”
I noticed that the places where you state many of the truck accidents occur are also the locations where residents would need to OWN trucks. You talked only about the number of accidents and fatalities, but never said anything about your findings to suggest that there was anything wrong with the design or manufacture of the vehicle. You also provided no comparisons that showed what the percentage of accidents that you talk about was, of all the same vehicles SOLD was, in those areas, and didn’t compare it to the same percentages of other manufacturers cars or trucks sold and crashed in the same area. Without supporting and logical information to accompany it, this is not anything more important than just being another click-bait article, in my opinion.
I have owned a Ford product all my driving life. Presently own Ford Explorer for 13 years. Have tried General Motors, Dodge station wagon. I have had two accidents by people running stop signs in my Ford 150 pickup and a 2010 explorer and not been injured. I still own an explorer. I would say that the more people we having driving the more popular autos, this would increase the stats and would predict high rates of accidents. Cars don’t cause accidents it is the drivers that are responsible.
the 2010 has a habit of not starting after you shut it down . you have to wait 15 20 min before you can start it agein
I think that you have taken some factual sales figures, and perhaps total vehicle fatal crashes by type, and then drew a conclusion that is out of whack. For instance, I have owned several of each of the brands that you have knocked, except for the Toyota, which I would NEVER own on principle. And I have had ZERO accidents with any of them. My concern is the MOST DANGEROUS parts of any motor vehicle is the NUT behind the wheel!
All I will say is that the power in any pickup truck means the driver has to be careful with that that TOY is being used for. YES TOY. This is what causes accidents. I have been driving for over 50 years and know that accidents do happen. If you live in rural America, suburbia or the city, driving conditions are different and you have to know how to drive under does conditions. Switch to a new area and things change and accidents happen. The biggest issue that I know of is giving a teenager a new vehicle when they get their driver’s license and they do not know how to drive safety yet. IT IS JUST THEIR BIG NEW TOY AND GET INTO AN ACCIDENT BECAUSE OF THAT.
AS FOR Japanese vehicle’s, the manufactures failed to take into account that driving in one part of the planet is different from driving in another part of the planet. There was a song about a rock musician who purchased a Japanese vehicle and got into a very serious accident a few decades ago.
He lived and wrote a song about his experience. After the song was released and played a number of times, I believe that the foreign car manufactures got the message and redid their vehicles to meet USA manufacturing requirement for safer vehicles and have gotten better over the decades.
Unfortunatly, some manufactures just do not give ashit went the vehicle is around large vehicles and 18 wheelers.
I have driven Ford trucks for over 50 yrs and I trust them. At work I drove GM as did hundreds of others and we had all kinds of trouble with them. I will never ever trust any GM
Have a 2013 and would drive nothing else.
I would never buy anything made by Chevy or GM. GM stands for Giant Mess!! Chevy is not chevy anymore. Its Shitty now!!!
i have 2002 chevy silverado yes safe till now 2002 – 2024 yes new brakes oil pump gas pump oil pressure dist cap run real good for now Roger
This was just a list of best selling cars. Stupid story
I have always been a Ford/Dodge fan, never had trouble with either brand to speak of,…. I remember the explorer troubles once upon a time and the investigation and the result,…. no matter the car if you drive with a radial tire low it WILL fail abruptly, now the decal said inflate That tire to 24-28 pounds, and that is low, I had the same FR480 tires on a ranger, where the sticker said 36-38 pounds, I ran that ranger over 256K miles in the oilfield from the day it was new usually marginally overloaded with my belongings, never had a failure, I now have a ’21 explorer, great car, too many computers and such, but just the same, no problems, it has Hankook tires, we ruined 1 hitting road debris that had a nail but the car has been excellent, great mileage, great handling my wife does crafting and shows, the car is almost always within 2% of being fully loaded with her crafts and supplies, still gets 30mpg on the open road and handles great, I have driven the F- Series fords commercially, plastic timing gears were junk but otherwise no issues, I have driven the dodges (RAM) commercially and again no problems,…. but then again I might just be a 70 year old newbie at this with over 8 million miles, got my first commercial license back in the seventies, Its all in the care, flog the damned thing you MAY die, neglect the thing you WILL die, Drive a japper, or a GM, you will be hitching or waiting on a tow, or possibly an Ambulance ! have fun, Ignore the car writers, they know nothing about anything except typewriter Ribbons
WHY CAN’T YOU READ A ARTICLE WITHOUT HAVING ALL THESE BS ADVERTISING? WHY DO YOU HAVE TO LOOK AND FIND THE NEXT PAGE? PLAIN AND SIMPLE IS SOMETIMES BEST – less aggravation for the consumer!
pure b.s.
I had a 1996 Ford Explorer, put almost 600,000 miles on it until the 2nd transmission failed. No accidents except deer hits.
Someone needs to learn that “number of total crashes” means nothing, only “crashes per capita” has any meaning in this context.
In my opinion Chevys, aka Shittys, are the worst vehicle on the road. I would NEVER buy one!! They are JUNK!!!
Had to laugh at the so called dangerous cars. If you ever watch the majority of drivers of these cars and think OH MY GOD they are doing twice the speed limit it is easy to understand that these super popular cars with super sized numbers on the road
I can’t even find the list, just ads
Anti Ford site? Guys you are not going to convince me that the Explorer is more deadly then the small little econo-boxes like Honda, Kia, Hundi ect. that are on the streets today. Sorry, no dice!
I have a Ford F-150 and it’s extremely dependable and safe. I have own it since 2015 and it to very reliable in extremely bad weather!
I just read the first 2, and am not impressed.
Sure the Ford Explorer is a narrow, short, tall vehicle, so you have to be careful of roll overs. But that is inherent with its advantages, and is not a defect.
With the Toyota Corolla, the number in accidents just reflects how common it is, and again, not a defect. If all cars were smaller, then they would all be safer.
Have been in 2 Ford vehicles that were totally demolished, Was not injured in either. One was a 2006 Ranger.
I have a 2007 F-150 with a 150,000 miles on it and it is a great truck. But, as with any car or truck you must watch out for the other guy on the road. Plus there are to many drunk drivers out there.
Your reasoning is vague, what just because there are a lot sold it makes them dangerous?
Such BS is usually attributable to shady politicians.
oh its the people driving them that are dangerous, most of these are good reliable safe vehicles..
My Ford Ranger 4X4 is great except for the head gaskets are blown. This seems to only happen with Fords, this is my second round with gasket leakage!
Chevys are great no problems my 71 longbed was a beast!
It’s just like guns, guns don’t kill people it’s people using guns that do. Many accidents are caused by distraction, tiredness or just plain stupidity like passing on a 2 lane with an on coming car. I’ve been involved in a number of accidents all not my fault and in all I was rear ended – twice on my motorcycles. I had a Corvair – remember “Unsafe at any speed” that I drove to the University 50 miles away on the Interstate 80 which has a bad reputation for weather issues (wind, blowing snow and ice). Never had an accident – as they say “it’s the nut behind the wheel”.
I owed a 1998 F-150 pickup truck which I purchased new in 1998, brand-new with only 76 miles on it.
I sold it last year after buying a brand-new F-250 6.7 L Diesel Crew cab. I had the F-150 for over 25 years. Excellent truck. The F-150 Truck had close to 300,000 miles on it. I drove it to Canada, New York and up to Boston, another Road trip to Tenn. It was used to build several houses. Like I said, it was a great Truck.
This has to be one of the dumbest lists I’ve ever read. All the vehicles with the exception of Mitsubishi Space Car thing are on the list NOT because they’re unsafe or deadly… They are on the list because they are the most populat vehicles that have sold the most models. Obviously selling the most models, by far having much more more on the American roads will ultimately result in higher number of accidents, fatalities etc. People use your common sense!
Exaggeration is so typical of the media, blaming the devices instead of the person/s using it. MOST auto accidents are the result of inexperienced, careless, and/or downright STUPID drivers.
Who in the heck does the studies. All of these vehicles are good cars and you only give stats on deaths, not comparing the number of cars made and number of deaths. This is a poorly done report.
Your analysis has eliminated approximately 90% of the pickup trucks on the road. I guess those of us that require a pickup to work had better start walking and using burros to carry our loads.
Ridiculous!
Drive like your life depends on it. It does.
Along with my GM vehs. I own a 1999 F250 SD XLT. I don’t use it very much (only 41,000 miles on it). Mostly to tow a 5th wheel trailer. It has a V10 engine, AT trans., and it can haul just about anything, yet it rides smoothly. We feel extremely safe in it!
My most recent F-100 was an ‘08 which woul d attempt to accept from full stop by itself., like when I was stopped at at stop light at a traffic light .
It was scary. My Ford dealer swore there were no known situations of such activity and could not find any reason mine was doing that. Later, I learned that there were many instances of such acts snd Ford was well aware of it. I even spoke to a man who had a bad wreck from this same problem. This stopped occurring on its own after a while.
Sometime thereafter that, the “A Frame” on the right from wheel broke while driving and caused me to wreck and wipe out a parked car. Thankfully, no human harm.
That ended my longtime Ford ownership forever.
Ford lied to me and many more. I learned and learned the hard way.
I own a 2016 Ram 1500 4×4, and kind of like the way it drives and handles, I would never get into one of those half cars that looks like a misfit of nature.
Yes absolutely would but not the F’ed up 150.
I couldn’t find the list though all the ads
I have one of the newer explorers, execellent automobile, not like the old rollovers waiting to happen.
30mpg, seats seven, will light the rears if you choose, wife drives it fifty miles to town and back daily, we haul her crafting in it every weekend, tons of room and handles perfectly, we also have the dodge ranch truck, another winner for 25 years and a quarter of a million miles, there really are not too many bad vehicles today just bad owners, change the oil and filters, air the tires, don’t dog it, it will last !
I live in north Georgia and I, and my husband have noticed that mostly young men have the F series.
Many of them seem to drive “loud” and aggressive! Maybe they have more accidents or cause more accidents. My husband bought a F-150 years ago that he mainly needed in his business. Never had an accident. BTW it is also White. I think a car’s color has a lot to do with it’s road-safe status.
I think except for the Corolla by Toyota your an anti fossil fuel report because most of them are not fuel efficient. Or electric and a lot are sold. You have no facts in the article to back any of your claims up? Lib-tard
I have a Ford Explorer and its fine. It just is high off the ground and has a very short turning radius, so easy to tip over. But not hard to avoid that if you know what you are doing. The same will be true of any off road vehicle, like a Jeep.
With the Toyota Corolla, the 3k deaths were not at all bad if put into the % of 50 million Corollas sold. Small cars will always lose if you hit a big car or truck, but the smaller cars are more nimble and can avoid that with a good driver.
Pickups are big and less maneuverable, so are bound to have more accidents. But being larger, they also likely are safer. If you need to carry or tow, you have no other choice.
The Mitsubishi Space Star just has a tiny engine. That is not bad or dangerous. And in fact could be useful to save money on fuel.
I don’t think it’s the cars or trucks I drove some of those model cars and all the trucks over 48 years of driving and not wearing seatbelts survived. I think it’s the drivers
Corolla… the best selling car in the world all time. Obviously it’s going to be in the list. This is misleading information. It should be in average considering the amount of cars in the streets. No sense…
Most accidents, regardless of the vehicle being driven, are caused by the drivers. Most tailgate, and are in a hurry to get somewhere, with no regard for others on the road. Most newer drivers never heard of the safe distance rule when following another vehicle, “one car length per 10 mph.” If anyone is going 70 mph and leaves 7 cars lengths between them and the driver ahead, at least one car/truck will cut over and fill the void. They consider that driver as some idiot that needs to take the
side streets, because their life must not be so important! Today you have to add in texting, talking on the phone, more drivers on the road than ever, all sorts of drugs, and a very large number of drivers without a license, insurance, and no idea the risks that they taking each time they drive.
Useless waste of time and data space. WHY, other than fatal crashes, have these first 5 (of 6) vehicles been labeled UNSAFE?
I owned a 1989 Toyota Corolla SR5 for YEARS, & had to give it up BASICALLY, because I semi-regularly needed to transport a couple of “oversized” passengers, usually individually.
Also, when the mostly cosmetic-desired or needed repairs became more expensive than buying my good, used Honda Accord LX, I retired it, even after having a “Top end” motor rebuild.
But, more to my point, You give no real reason, beyond number of fatal accidents, globally, or over the decades, as to WHY, WHAT ELSE is the UNDERLYING REASON or CAUSE for your OPINION? Fatal collusions can be caused by MANY THINGS: MECHANICAL FAILURE (as stated in your Mazda model review), BAD DRIVERS, ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS or TERRAIN… to name a few.
I would appreciate reading this article in the future BACKED UP by SOME important, CREDIBLE, RELEVANT INFORMATION.
What are you telling me? I drive 2017 Ford Explorer Limited.
I am not going to blame the vehicle for how crazy people drive. I had a Ford Explorer never had an accident, I also had the Toyota and it was a great car. My Chevy Silverado, she was my baby, she just wouldn’t die. I had almost a million miles on her, but I took good care of her, she took good care of me.
I had 2013, 2014 Ford Escape, two 2019 Ford Fusion. My second Ford Fusion is at 199,000 miles and keep regular checkups and oil changes. I just bought four Michelin tires and made no repairs since I had any of my vehicles.
I did not really get much from this. The reality is use of Automobiles be it cars, suvs or trucks, their is risk. thats about all i got from this. Technology will over time continue to improve this.
I still have m 2002 Ford Explorer. Bought it new.
Fully enjoyable.
So is the high rate of fatal Corolla fatal accidents because it’s a model that’s been made since 1966 and one of the top sellers, hence so many on the road so of course there would be more fatal accidents, or not?
I own a 2007 Toyota Corolla. Awesome car. Dependable. 51,000 miles.
Sirs, In all fairness to the cars you call “The worst”, let us in on the particulars that bring you to those conclusions. Starting with with percentages. What percent of the accidents were solely caused by the vehicle? (component malfunction). What percent were caused by the driver? ( Careless, Reckless, Thoughtless, Inebriated, Asleep at the wheel ) ?
I have driven Ford cars and Ford pickups for over 73 years,without an incident. In all those years All the Fords I have owned have been reliable, and dependable. ( all had scheduled dealer service) The responsibilities that come with the privilege of driving are taken too lightly by too many people.
I have had two Explorers and have had good luck with them. The 1992 had 545,630 miles on it when donated to public television. The 1997 has 144,000 miles on it without a problem, not even exhaust system or a headlight. The low mileage on the 97 Explorer is due to how long the ’92 lasted. For three years at work I used three different years of F-150 Ford trucks without a problem. They were all fairly new so I wouldn’t have expected a problem. I would buy another Explorer.
I have had two Explorers and have had good luck with them. The 1992 had 545,630 miles on it when donated to public television. The 1997 has 144,000 miles on it without a problem, not even exhaust system or a headlight. The low mileage on the 97 Explorer is due to how long the ’92 lasted. For three years at work I used three different years of F-150 Ford trucks without a problem. They were all fairly new so I wouldn’t have expected a problem. I would buy another Explorer.
We had a new Explorer in 1998, my wife had the longest distance to go to work, so, she was the main driver of it. We took it in for an oil change and the mechanic noticed the boot on the shifter was ripped. He checked it and found the pin holding the shifter to the steering column was almost completely out of place and recommended we take it back to the dealer we got it from. It turns out the steering shaft was just about completely cut through from the pin being dislodged and rubbing on the shaft. We fought with Ford Company and the dealership about covering the repair (it was 1000 miles out of warranty). So while they were examining the cost of repairs ($1200) I went to their car lot and found a full-sized truck, traded in the Explorer. They called 3 days later and told me to bring the Explorer in for repairs, I told them it was already there, and they now owned the vehicle as I traded it in.
My daughter’s F-150 was hit broad-sided by a person going 35 mph. She and my two grandkids sat on the side of the truck, which was broad-sided. No one received a scratch. I credit how well-built the truck is, and the frame saved them from injury. The truck was totaled. It did what it was supposed to do. Our family, our three generations of owners. would not own another truck. Great performers. My sister has a Ford-250 with over 200,000 miles, including towing an RV. She would not own anything else but a Ford pick-up. I have owned two, 1979 that would leave all others behind on any grade towing and I currently have a 2015 150. I love it.
The Trucks listed here are more due to the way these drivers drive them! They are completely wreckless and love to speed , tailgate, hit their high beams and have road rage I am an Uber driver and I see and deal with these people on a daily basis. I’ve been an Uber driver for 7 years, I drive 6 days a week 10-12 hours a day
It’s a rather silly article about vehicles that get involved in fatal crashes. Since no one car or manufacturer’s line up of models has not suffered a fatal accident there is no reason to believe that the numbers such as they are can tell us much meaningfully; other than, if you drive a car on public roads you have a x in y chance of dying.
I don’t buy your assessment on the Space Star, aka Mirage. I just took one on a round trip to LA. It did awesome. Had no problem passing cars on the way either. Maybe its not the car that is the problem. Maybe it’s the driver instead.