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Re:Things people blamed on bicycles by vetinari on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @06:57AM (#32577659)
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.

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Re:Things people blamed on bicycles by fluoridation on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @10:46AM (#32580146)
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?
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Re:Things people blamed on bicycles by vetinari on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @11:29AM (#32580697)
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.

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