According to statistics provided by Robert Bosch GmbH (www.bosch.com), skidding is the cause of one quarter of all accidents. They also show that 60% of all accidents with fatal injuries happen through side crashes caused mainly by skidding.
A NHTSA (U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) study also showed that passenger cars that had been fitted with ESP as standard equipment from 1997 to 2002 had, on average, 35% fewer driving accidents than for the same vehicle models before the standard fitment of ESP, with the number of fatal driving accidents reduced by 30%.
In the SUV class, the impact was even greater: according to the study, the number of road accidents in this category was reduced by 67% and fatal road accidents reduced by 63%.