Safety Test Gives Small Trucks 'Marginal' Rating

25/07/2008 11:48. When Kevin Call set out to buy a new truck, there was one factor that weighed heavily on his mind. "It makes me feel a lot more comfortable knowing my family's safe while we're riding in it," said Call.

But with the highest driver death rates of any other vehicles on the road, small pickups may be letting down their owners. Especially in side-impact collisions, which are the second most common type of fatal crash.

Of the five small trucks tested by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, three trucks, the Dodge Dakota, the Ford Ranger, and the Nissan Frontier earned only "Marginal" ratings. And one truck, the Chevy... // CBS 5