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Re:Traffic Fatalities Reach 16 Year High by xyzzyz on Friday August 05, 2022 @12:28AM (#32351659)
Given that the fatalities in 2020 went up a lot among black Americans, barely budged among white ones and went down a lot among Asian Americans, I consider the above theory to be total bunk (unless somehow only black Americans were benefitting from congestion reduction, while white Americans were as stuck in traffic as ever).

https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

Given that racial patterns of changes in traffic fatalities match very closely those in homicides since 2020 (where, again, rate of homicide victimization went up a lot among black Americans, and only mildly among whites), I’d rather suspect common reason behind both.

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Re:Traffic Fatalities Reach 16 Year High by onetimeusename on Friday August 05, 2022 @12:45AM (#32351786)
That's an interesting find, did not know this was tracked. It also says there was a big increase in fatalites for all other races that were not black, white, asian, or american indian.
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