Regarding stats...If you search the AAIB from 1st jan until now, you will see than in the UK alone there have been 7 accidents involving Cessna SEPs. Does this mean that the Cessna is a more dangerous single?
There have been 10 involving Piper SEPs and so by this deduction I can safely assume that a Piper SEP is more dangerous than a Cessna SEP ? By contrast there have been no Cirrus accidents at all!
Just showing how statistics and peoples' perception of them can be as meaningless as you want them to be which is why I don't believe the hype about the Cirrus. To have meaningful stats you'd have to break it down to "per flight hour" and by "type of flight".