Tesla named 'The Deadliest Car Brand in America', NHTSA data shows.

That makes Musk the deadliest CEO of any business, or government department head.

iSeeCars has an interesting analysis of vehicle fatality rates (using the NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System and then adjusted by miles traveled using iSeeCar’s own data) that reaches some fascinating (and, admittedly, grisly) conclusions. On one hand, the list confirms some basic vehicle safety concepts, like that the physics of a multi-vehicle crash favor the larger vehicles, and so forth. Small vehicles (physics), sports cars (risk-taking behavior) and some mainstream vehicles (perhaps just the sheer amount of them on the road?) tend to have the highest fatality rates. On the other hand, the brand with the highest number of fatal crashes per mile might surprise you.

It’s an American automaker, a relative newcomer, exclusively builds EVs and has arguably the most controversial (and richest) CEO in vehicular history. Yes, it’s Tesla. iSeeCars pegs the Tesla fatality rate at 5.6 accidents per billion vehicle miles traveled. This does not factor in any information about non-fatal crashes; it only includes FARS data in which at least one occupant died in the crash.