Full chassis & Bull barred vehicles, a danger to passenger vehicles! Or Not?

I caught a few minutes of a show on TV last week, i think it was called Emergency Situations or something similar. There was an accident involving, i think a Commodore and a Nissan Patrol, it was hard to tell the exact vehicle models due to the camera being at close quarters to the crash scene. I didn't quite get what exactly happened but the 4x4 driver said that he could see the passenger vehicle coming towards him but he could not avoid it. The 4x4 only had no passengers but there was a passenger in the Commodore who died at the scene,a young woman, the driver of that vehicle was critical but survived. The 4x4 guy ended up with a minor fracture to his lower back and bruising and would recover in time, he was around 55yo. The 4x4 guy was lucky to survive with his vehicle badly damaged and on its side. The Commodore would have taken the major part of the impact due to being the softer vehicle.This was a 80kph crash, head on so 160kph impact. The point being is that if the 4x4 guy who said he was not at fault, was in a passenger vehicle, he may not have survived but may have lessened the impact on the other vehicle and the passenger in the other vehicle may have survived. There is a lot of noise about the strength of 4x4s in a head on collision but in this case it may have saved an innocent life but caused the death of an innocent life in the other vehicle. Its hard to know all of the "what if" 'but' "maybes, and i guess we will never know. When you start to analyse the situation, its hard to come to a reasonable solution. Michael