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Why? Excluding children, most pedestrians who get killed by cars didn't pay attention while crossing the street. That's the no 1 cause for adults. The other one
by tjansen 9y ago
Why? Excluding children, most pedestrians who get killed by cars didn't pay attention while crossing the street. That's the no 1 cause for adults. The other one is walking on streets without sidewalks.
(sorry, ony have stats in German: https://www.adac.de/_mmm/pdf/Praesentation11-13_192487.pdf https://www.adac.de/_mmm/pdf/Praesentation11-13_192487.pdf)
- jacquesm 9y agoWhere do you get these stats? Not that I'm doubting your numbers but I'd love to see an article or dataset about this.
- learnstats2 9y agoOK but more people are killed by cars on the sidewalk than are killed by bicycles total. Evidence: http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/article196605814.html http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/article196605814.ht...
- upofadown 9y agoA couple of relatively recent studies done in Australia came up with the result that driver error was the cause of collisions with pedestrians/bikes around 80% of the time.
- akgerber 9y agoAs a matter of simple physics, the only way pedestrians are killed in crashes is because cars are moving sufficiently fast to bring deadly force to a crash— which makes cars traveling at speeds over 20mph in areas with pedestrians the fundamental cause of pedestrian deaths. https://nacto.org/docs/usdg/relationship_between_speed_risk_fatal_injury_pedestrians_and_car_occupants_richards.pdf https://nacto.org/docs/usdg/relationship_between_speed_risk_...