Safety consultant: Judged by the number of injuries per licensed vehicle, minivans are the safest vehicles on the road  However, in carefully designed crash tests, minivans show no greater ability to protect their occupants than other vehicles of similar size do
Thus, the reason minivans have such a good safety record is probably not that they are inherently safer than other vehicles, but rather that they are driven primarily by low-risk drivers
Minivans tend to carry more passengers at any given time than do most other vehicles.