1.   A General Motors technical paper from a German safety conference shows that car occupants are far more likely to die when they hit heavier vehicles.

2.   But when cars and heavier vehicles collide, they say, car occupants are more likely to die.

3.   Heavier vehicles have an advantage in crashes, other research has shown.

4.   Heavier vehicles were entitled to bigger rebates, leading to some discussion of whether certain kinds of pickups and sport utility vehicles would qualify.

5.   In collisions of cars and pickups or cars and sport utility vehicles, car passengers were four times more likely to die than those inside the heavier vehicles.

6.   State regulators are on the verge of proposing new registration rules that could further increase the number of heavier vehicles on area roadways.

7.   They had parked a car sideways across the gate to block it, but the Serbs pushed through with a heavier vehicle.

8.   Switzerland hoped to use the duty on trucks to offset the environmental impact of allowing heavier vehicles on its roads.

9.   The study also said lighter vehicles were more dangerous to their passengers than heavier vehicles, regardless of whether they were cars or trucks.