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Hello and welcome to more or less on the BBC World Service.

We're a programme which celebrates and checks the numbers that surround us in the news and everyday life, and I'm Tim Harford.

Loyal listener and motorist Andy Cripps has been in touch to find out if he's made a decision he's about to regret.

I recently changed my car from a Volvo XC90,

and I wonder if I made a good choice.

After changing it, I was told that no one has ever died in an XC-90.

While this sounds an impressive statistic, it could be that there are just not many XC-90s

on the road in comparison with,eward Vieses or perhaps the demographic

I'm going to interrupt Andy Cripps there because he actually nails every single

interesting statistical claim about car safety that you might want to hear.

And I want to go and I want also to invite my colleague Jordan Dunbar into the studio.

He is our driving around honking at people correspondent hello Jordan hi Tim

now you've been taking a look at Andy grips his claim yes now the numbers

that Andy's talking about may come from the UK, but they tell us something really interesting about how we rate the safety of a car anywhere.

And we went alone because this story went worldwide in both newspapers and the motoring press and it seems that the very first

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