How many of these pedestrian were hit on sidewalk? How many on pedestrian crossing? And how many on roads, outside of crossing?
I would guess that the stats would be radically different, if we took only pedestrians on sidewalks, as was the case above.
Re:Things people blamed on bicycles
by fluoridation on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @10:46AM
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Yes, collisions between vehicles and pedestrians happen where the two interact, and the places where they do can be different for different classes of vehicles. What's your point?
See above:
> a cyclist ran over a child (ER took the child to hospital) on a busy promenade on the bank of the river.
Promenades happen to be dedicated to pedestrians. So pedestrian was hit in a place, where he was supposed to be safe.
And then...
> Meanwhile there's over 2000 deadly car accidents a year in Poland, 20% of which are pedestrians[1], meaning there's more than one pedestrian killed by a car every day.
These accidents probably didn't happen on promenades, pavements, sidewalks, footpaths or other places dedicated to pedestrians.
So back to my point: comparing apples with apples. This comparison wasn't it.
Re:Things people blamed on bicycles
by throw_a_grenade on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @05:04AM
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I would like to see those statistics normalised by the kilometres travelled. Unless they are, I'd argue those are misleading.
[1] https://notesfrompoland.com/2021/11/23/road-deaths-in-poland...