See, Pickups are more dangerous than a common car

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Reasons
1.        it has much higher tendency of losing control
2.        when head-on with another vehicle, its protection for passengers is very poor.
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" c) b$ V" G; B' [Police said a 53-year-old man travelling southbound in a pickup truck died after he lost control and veered sideways into the path of a northbound car.
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The driver of the car was airlifted to hospital with life-threatening injuries.

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Highways+closed+Fort+McMurray+wintry+blast/7781699/story.html