In three out of four fatal rollovers, the victims were ejected from the vehicle, indicating they weren't wearing a seatbelt.

But some models are 15 times more likely to be involved in fatal rollovers.

Their recent fifteen-year summary reports on fatal agricultural rollovers, runovers, animal injuries, injuries to older adults and injuries to children can be downloaded here.

There will be wrecks, like the fatal one-car rollover we'll pass on a bridge around midnight, an upside-down Beijing-plated Mitsubishi.

Then came the bruising dispute with Bridgestone/Firestone over what part tires played in fatal rollovers of the Ford Explorer.

He said agency statistics showed the rate of fatal rollovers for S.U.V.'s was almost triple that for passenger cars.

The old Explorer, equipped with Firestone tires, has been linked to numerous fatal rollovers.

After the spate of fatal rollovers linked to Ford Explorers equipped with Firestone tires.

The entire increase in fatal rollovers in recent years has come from sport utility vehicles, for which the number of deaths has doubled since 1993, to 1,898.

This means that the likelihood of a fatal rollover for any single sport utility has inched down.