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Meanwhile there's over 2000 deadly car accidents a year in Poland, 20% of which are pedestrians[1], meaning there's more than one pedestrian killed by a car eve

• throw_a_grenade 4y ago
  I would like to see those statistics normalised by the kilometres travelled. Unless they are, I'd argue those are misleading.
• vetinari 4y ago
  How many of these pedestrian were hit on sidewalk? How many on pedestrian crossing? And how many on roads, outside of crossing? I would guess that the stats would be radically different, if we took only pedestrians on sidewalks, as was the case above.
  • fluoridation 4y ago
    Yes, collisions between vehicles and pedestrians happen where the two interact, and the places where they do can be different for different classes of vehicles. What's your point?
    • vetinari 4y ago
      See above: > a cyclist ran over a child (ER took the child to hospital) on a busy promenade on the bank of the river. Promenades happen to be dedicated to pedestrians. So pedestrian was hit in a place, where he was supposed to be safe. And then... > Meanwhile there's over 2000 deadly car accidents a year in Poland, 20% of which are pedestrians[1], meaning there's more than one pedestrian killed by a car every day. These accidents probably didn't happen on promenades, pavements, sidewalks, footpaths or other places dedicated to pedestrians. So back to my point: comparing apples with apples. This comparison wasn't it.