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How many times a week do you walk or bike to buy groceries? If it's one or less, you lack perspective in this space. Anyone who has been nearly hit by a car wh
by et-al 2y ago
How many times a week do you walk or bike to buy groceries? If it's one or less, you lack perspective in this space.
Anyone who has been nearly hit by a car while walking understands why violence is the correct term.
Secondly, your chart seems to be looking at motorist fatalities rather than pedestrian deaths caused by motor vehicles. This is what you want: https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/pedestrians https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/pedes...
Of course if pedestrians are just an another inconvenience in front of your windshield, it's all hysterics.
- AlbertCory 2y ago[flagged]
- et-al 2y agoHere's some normalized data (pedestrian deaths to VMT) on Figure 5, page 12. Unfortunately it only goes back to 2016 and not 1975: https://www.ghsa.org/sites/default/files/2024-06/2023%20Pedestrian%20Traffic%20Fatalities%20by%20State.pdf https://www.ghsa.org/sites/default/files/2024-06/2023%20Pede... And on page 10 of this NHTSA report (DOT HS 813 435), it shows that the proportion of nonoccupant fatalities have been increasing: https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/Publication/813435 https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/Publication/8134...
- AlbertCory 2y ago[flagged]
- chrismcb 2y agoI've almost been hit by a car. I was crossing the street, they were turning left and failed to yield. Missed me by inches. I would NOT use the term traffic violence. At least not for that incident. It isn't the correct term. Draper the fact they knew I was there, and they were impatient. The word "violence" has a connotation that doesn't fit here.
- jmclnx 2y ago[flagged]
- AlbertCory 2y ago[flagged]