Fat bastards more likely to die in road accidents Various sources including the New Scientist cite a study which is written up here  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-191382/Crash-risk-obese-people.html Briefly it talks about sleep apnoea, prising the fat blobs out of wrecks, and airbags being designed for human sized crash victims. Obese? 80 percent more likely to die. But that's not all. I looked this up because I watched an old episode of Top Gear in which James May tests the braking distance of a fiat panda. He then tests it with three obese passengers, citing the fact that the family of the near future will be this huge and likely driving a similar car. The result? With three fat passengers the car took a further one hundred and seventy metres to come to a halt. Here's a low quality clip of the intro to the segment. Sadly it ends before the braking test. I'll look up the exact episode number for you all. Edit: series 18, episode 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCTlEYZdIfg Shouldn't their insurance be higher since they present a serious danger to life?