Rollovers: Are You at Risk for One of These Deadly Vehicle Accidents?
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It was six in the morning on St. Patrick’s Day, 2012, when Hannah Ritchie’s headlights revealed a dog on the freeway. “I swerved to the left to avoid the dog and then swerved to the right to avoid hitting the median guard rail, resulting in my Jeep swerving back and forth along four lanes of the freeway and eventually rolling over three or four times,” says the 27-year-old resident of Sacramento, California.
While relatively rare, rollover accidents cause approximately one third of all vehicle occupant fatalities, according to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. Here’s how to avoid or survive one.
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Be mindful of tall vehicles. While any automobile can roll over, SUVs, light trucks and vans do so more easily. They have a higher center of gravity that makes them relatively easy to tip over. Loading passengers into a van or cargo onto the roof of any vehicle also will raise its center of gravity.
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