Government study measures the risk of crash for clunkers

foxnews.com - The older a car is, the more likely its driver will die in a crash, says a new research paper from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.It’s always reassuring when scientists prove the obvious, in this case that a brand-new car is safer than an old rust-bucket. But what’s not obvious at all, in this case, is how much more extra risk you take on with older-generation cars. It turns out that a driver of a car 18 or more years old is 71 percent more likely to die in a bad crash than the driver of a car three years old or newer.