From GB News yesterday:

Scotland could introduce new restrictions on larger vehicles in city centres following fresh calls from campaigners, who warned SUVs are becoming an “emerging problem”. A new report from sustainable transport group Transform Scotland has urged the next Scottish Government to consider bringing in limits on the biggest vehicles in urban areas. According to the report, SUVs made up almost half of all new cars sold in 2023, a dramatic rise from just one in 10 in 2020. Campaigners warned that this rapid growth is already having a visible impact on Scotland’s towns and cities.

https://www.gbnews.com/lifestyle/cars/scotland-suv-restrictions-parking-road-safety

The evidence:

From Towards Data Science in January 2023:

So are SUVs and pickup trucks more dangerous to pedestrians? Yes. The logistic regression models show that SUVs are 16% more likely to cause incapacitating injuries and 36% more likely to kill pedestrians than smaller cars. Pickup trucks are 33% more likely to cause incapacitating injury and 108% (more than twice as likely!) to kill pedestrians.https://towardsdatascience.com/suvs-are-killing-people-de6ce08bac3d

The above research did not consider the probable, to me, factor – height. The smaller you are, the more likely the bumper will strike you in the chest or even head.

From the peer-reviewed Journal of Safety Research in September 2022:

Results suggest that children are eight times more likely to die when struck by a SUV compared to those struck by a passenger car.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022437522000810?via%3Dihub

Anecdotal, I know, but I once witnessed a drunk hit by a Vauxhall Zafira people carrier with a low bumper and soft bonnet. It hit his legs, and deposited him on the bonnet. He rolled off, got up, took a second to regain a little balance, then walked off without even looking behind him.