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It's generally an accident.

• acdha 3y ago
  It’s generally unintentional. It’s rarely the case that the collision would have occurred had the driver been in compliance with the law. Road design is often a factor because the biggest thing which makes it a fatality is speed, and we have many roads where the speed limit is supposed to be 20-25mph but the design is like a much faster highway, causing almost everyone to go over the limit and thus have less time to react to anyone unexpected and hit them at higher speeds. This recent blog post was making the rounds based on Washington state data showing the speeding rate _in school zones_ was over 70%, which I think is what you’d find almost anywhere in the United States: https://www.theurbanist.org/2023/12/12/drivers-are-speeding-in-wa-school-zones/ https://www.theurbanist.org/2023/12/12/drivers-are-speeding-...