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This is getting tangential but it's striking to me how fatality rates went up during the pandemic. You can see the dips during previous recessions and energy cr
by derbOac 3y ago
This is getting tangential but it's striking to me how fatality rates went up during the pandemic. You can see the dips during previous recessions and energy crises like you're saying, and I'd expect something similar during the pandemic, but it went the other way.
- brewdad 3y agoPeople were bored sitting at home. Getting out in your car and driving stupidly fast on empty roads was one way to alleviate that boredom. My 25mph road regularly became a drag strip.
- dr_orpheus 3y agoSeems likely, I had to keep going to work in person during COVID and my commute to work became very fast, and not just because of the empty roads. I also wonder if there was an uptick in fatality as people started returning to work and those used to speeding down an empty road were suddenly confronted with traffic. Also reminds me of some statistics I saw back in drivers ed class. I don't remember the exact stats, but in winter months there were significantly more crashes due to inclement weather/poor visibility as one might expect. But there were more fatal crashes in summer because people drive faster when they have clear conditions and line of sight.
- lostlogin 3y ago> fatality rates went up during the pandemic. They went down during lockdown in some places. I think the severity of lockdown is likely related, and New Zealand’s was more severe than most. https://www.1news.co.nz/2020/12/31/sad-and-disappointing-2020-road-toll-still-high-despite-lockdown-lulls/ https://www.1news.co.nz/2020/12/31/sad-and-disappointing-202...