This is on point. I'm Meagna Chakrabardi. Americans love their trucks and the bigger, the better.

Take the Ford F-150.

There's a lot of reasons why you should buy at Ford F-series, the best-selling truck lineup.

F-150 only gets better with time. Tough this smart can only be called F-150.

Well, the F-150 is also getting bigger with time.

Current models weigh 800 pounds heavier than F-150 is made back in 1991. I know that's a long time ago

but they're also seven inches taller now and it's not just Ford just about every truck and SUV today is much larger than they were even 15 years ago.

And those behemists make up 80% of US car sales.

As trucks and SUVs have gotten bigger,

they've also gotten deadlier.

But not for passengers inside the vehicles.

They're deadlier for people outside of them.

Between 2013 and 2022, less than 10 years,

pedestrian deaths in this country rose by almost 60 percent,

and the vast majority of those deaths happened in what's called

single vehicle crashes. In other words a car hits a person. Amy Mendelson of Chicago is lucky. She's survived being hit by an SUV twice. The first time was in 2008.

I was in the crosswalk. There was a couple in front of me with an umbrella.

The cars seemed to acknowledge and slow down for the couple with the umbrella

and then accelerated into the crosswalk hitting me who was just six feet walking behind them.

And kind of threw me forward, had a good goose egg, some whiplash, and I was so young at the time, just thought well that's life in the city it happens.

Then in 2013 she was hit for a second time and it was worse. This car was making a right-hand turn. I didn't see it coming. It was a total shot because I was well into the intersection, had the light with the crosswalk.

I was in a school zone at around 4 p.m. Witnesses said that, you know, I kind of did a flip in the

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