The Car Most Likely to Have an Accident

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published Jun 16, 10:30AM EDT

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that there are about 2 million car accidents in the United States each year. Car accidents kill over 40,000 people per annum. Some cars are safer than others. Newer cars have crash avoidance systems, lane change warnings and a dozen airbags. However, a few cars get into accidents no matter what safety systems they have. (These are America’s deadliest cars to drive.)
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The research for Insurify’s “Crash Course: Car Models With the Most Accidents in 2023” report is based on a universe of 4.6 million insurance applications. It looks at drivers who have a prior at-fault accident. It then looks at the percentage of these accidents by model. The data covers 2023 insurance applications.
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The car with the most accidents is the Audi A4, a small sedan from the German car maker’s inventory. Of the Audi A4s on which Insurify collected information, 11.3% were driven by people with an at-fault accident on their records. The authors pointed out, “With a robust V6 engine that surges to 349 horsepower, it’s not a surprise Audi S4 drivers also made the Insurify list of car brands with the most speeding tickets.”
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The A4 is expensive at $52,000. Audi has other cars in the A-series line up, including the A3, A5, A6, A7 and A8, which is Audi’s flagship model. The Audi brand is one of the best-selling in the United States, behind Mercedes, BMW and Lexus.
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These are the 10 car models with the most accidents in 2023:

Model	Price	Accidents
Audi S4	$51,900	11.7%
Scion iA	$15,700	11.5%
Chevrolet Volt	$33,520	11.0%
Hyundai Veloster N	$32,500	10.9%
Toyota GR86	$29,900	10.8%
Subaru WRX	$29,605	10.7%
Subaru XV Crosstrek	$21,595	10.5%
Chevrolet Silverado LD	$34,500	10.4%
Kia Niro	$26,590	10.4%
Subaru Impreza	$19,795	10.3%

About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.