Are our Slants "Unsafe"?

I'd always figured the biggest difference between old cars any new was survivability. I've heard dozens upon dozens of stories of rear endings, Fender benders, and the like where enormous damage was inflicted on the new car by the old car, where the old car just suffered very minor damage.

But I've also seen the leftovers of high speed wrecks involving old cars where you see the bodies fully separated from the frames, roofs caved in to below the steering wheel, fires, and utterly destroyed passenger compartments, the likes of which you don't see with newer cars.

Really, the way I figure it, An older car is what you wanna be driving if you get in a wreck that wouldn't be likely to result in death in the first place. A fender-bender, getting rear-ended, rear-ending someone else, anything under about 35-40 really . However, if I'm cruising the interstate and I lose a tire in the rain at 70mph, and I end up skidding to a stop nose-to-nose with oncoming traffic, I'd feel much safer in something actually DESIGNED to save your *** from that situation. (If that sounds a little specific it's because that's happened to me.)