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I'm kind of shocked that 2020 vs 2019 is a 7.1% INCREASE. Most people spent a lot of the year indoors traveling much less than usual. Curious.
by loufe 4y ago
I'm kind of shocked that 2020 vs 2019 is a 7.1% INCREASE. Most people spent a lot of the year indoors traveling much less than usual. Curious.
- ryukafalz 4y agoMuch has been said about this: https://www.vox.com/22675358/us-car-deaths-year-traffic-covid-pandemic https://www.vox.com/22675358/us-car-deaths-year-traffic-covi... The gist is that we design our streets in such a way that people drive dangerously fast on them when they’re not slowed down by congestion, and during the pandemic that’s exactly what happened. Some other countries (particularly in Western Europe) take a safe systems approach to street design and did not have the same uptick in fatalities that we did.
- dr_orpheus 4y agoThank you for the interesting article. I started skimming it after a little bit though and my eyes happened to pick up this line out of context. What a name to go with that quote: "“They were just sick and tired of kids being killed in the streets,” says Jason Slaughter"