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Re:Traffic Fatalities Are a Choice by slg on Monday May 12, 2025 @01:42PM (#43965610)
I noticed that link shows the jump in fatality rate for older cyclists and pedestrians is bigger than the one for drivers. How much do your skills as a pedestrian really degrade as you get older? To me, this suggests that part of this increase in fatalities is due to the body weakening as we age. An average 30-year-old almost certainly has higher odds of surviving the same accident compared to a typical 75-year-old. Maybe looking at the fatality rate for 70+ year old automobile passengers versus passengers under 60 would be a good baseline to show this and allow us to better estimate the true danger of declining skill of a driver.
Re:Traffic Fatalities Are a Choice by os2warpman on Monday May 12, 2025 @03:09PM (#43966501)
The increase in fatalities is almost exclusively due to frailty.