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I would guess, narrow roads in medieval towns would lead to slow driving speeds, and with slow speeds accidents are less fatal. Perhaps you can still kill a ped
by sampo 12y ago
I would guess, narrow roads in medieval towns would lead to slow driving speeds, and with slow speeds accidents are less fatal. Perhaps you can still kill a pedestrian when driving at 30 km/h, but a collision with another car at such speed is probably not fatal.
- arethuza 12y agoI suspect you are overestimating the extend of "medieval towns". Even places, like here in Edinburgh, that do have a core of medieval buildings have surrounding areas built in later centuries that generally have much wider streets out to the suburbs that were probably mostly built in the last century and have "modern" roads.
- gsnedders 12y agoMost of the towns are built with roads wide enough for two wagons to past each other, and pedestrians around the wagons. All in all, not too different from smallish cars.