The safest pickups, ranked against every vehicle

These 23 pickups are ranked by how often their drivers die in real-world crashes. Unlike crash-test ratings, each one is also placed on a single scale with all 129 ranked vehicles, so you can see how pickups stack up against every other kind of vehicle. The typical pickup scores 55 out of 100.

Safest pickup: Toyota Tundra CrewMax 4WD, with 0 driver deaths per million vehicle years, 8th of 129 overall.

Older pickups

These pickups only appear in the earlier IIHS study, so they're ranked among 2020 models.

• GMC Canyon Crew Cab 4WD (2017–2020 models, score 97)
• Toyota Tundra Double Cab short bed 4WD (2018–2020 models, score 77)
• Ford Ranger Crew Cab 4WD (2019–2020 models, score 73)
• Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Extended Cab 4WD (2019–2020 models, score 73)
• Jeep Gladiator 4WD (2020 models, score 71)
• Ford F-250 SuperCab 4WD (2017–2020 models, score 65)
• Chevrolet Colorado Crew Cab (2017–2020 models, score 63)
• Ford F-350 Crew Cab 4WD (2017–2020 models, score 51)
• Ford F-150 SuperCab 4WD (2019–2020 models, score 49)
• Ford F-250 Crew Cab 4WD (2017–2020 models, score 47)
• Chevrolet Colorado Extended Cab 2WD (2017–2020 models, score 43)
• Nissan Frontier King Cab 2WD (2017–2020 models, score 37)
• Nissan Frontier Crew Cab short bed (2017–2020 models, score 22)
• Ram 2500 Mega Cab 4WD (2017–2020 models, score 20)

Other vehicle types

• Safest cars
• Safest luxury cars
• Safest sports cars
• Safest wagons and minivans
• Safest SUVs
• Safest luxury SUVs
• Safest large vans

* Driver deaths per million registered vehicle years.