Iced up Cirrus descends by BRS

Here are some stats for the US (from the NTSB database):

New Cessna 182: Fatal accidents 11 (18 fatalities)
Cirrus: Fatal accidents 15 (32 fatalities)

For this to be meaningful one had to know the number of airplanes in
the US (I believe there are similar numbers for new C182 and Cirrus),
or the numbers of hours flown or anything else to make the two groups
comparable. Just from the above numbers, though, Cirri crashed 27%
more with fatal results than new Cessna 182S/T, and 44% more people got
killed.

I do not quite understand why people always compare Cirrus with C182.
The Cirrus is quite a bit more expensive, has a lot more horsepower,
and has a much sleeker wing which much higher wing loading. A more
suitable comparison IMHO to all the above parameters would be Mooneys
or Lancair/Columbias.

Gerd