Re:Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood In...
by Xylakant on Friday February 24, 2023 @06:55AM
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The source may be correct, but it’s not useful. To judge the risk you’d need a breakdown of where accidents happen - it may be the case that motorways have become much safer due to safer cars, but pedestrians and cyclists suffered.
Especially modern pickups and SUVs have an increased risk of severe injuries for pedestrians due to the high front area which hits vulnerable body parts where a station wagon would hit legs. You’ll likely find two or more overlapping trends.
Re:Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood In...
by eru on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @03:22AM
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Seems plausible. Do you have a source?
Btw, I heard that European cars pose less risks to pedestrians and cyclists?
Are you sure about that? What's your source?
Some quick searching gave me https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/historical-fatalit... which even looks like a decrease per capita over the past decades.
No clue whether that source of data is any good, and what the rates outside of the Us are. Just FYI, I don't like car centric places either, and that's part of the reason I probably couldn't live in the US.