jacked-up | Road Safety USA

In some parts of the USA, pick-up trucks with raised bodies are referred to as ‘jacked-up.’ The problem is that while large pick-up trucks are already dangerous vehicles (see below), raised pick-ups can be particularly deadly.

A jacked-up pick-up truck. — In some states, simply raising the height of a vehicle’s bumpers is illegal and this typically prevents owners from jacking-up their pick-up trucks. (Copyright image, 2019.)

So why are pick-up trucks dangerous in the first place, and why does raising their height make matters worse?
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