 UCLA law professor Gary T. Schwartz, in a "Rutgers Law Review" article (see "Section 7.3 NHTSA Investigation" above), studied the fatality rates of the Pinto and several other small cars of the time period.He noted that fires, and rear-end fires in particular, are very small portion of overall auto fatalities.At the time only 1% of automobile crashes would result in fire and only 4% of fatal accidents involved fire, and only 15% of fatal fire crashes are the result of rear-end collisions.