Showing posts with label pedestrian killings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pedestrian killings. Show all posts
Monday, October 12, 2020

Statistics confirm that American drivers continue to massacre walkers and cyclists.

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Just the facts, folks. Sorry if it hurts your car to hear them. Exactly How Far U.S. Street Safety Has Fallen Behind Europe, in Three Bombsh...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020

A book to look for this summer: "Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America."

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If anyone cocooned within the bunker-bound Team Gahan inner ruling circle would like to read this book, I'll buy it for them. It limi...
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Tuesday, July 16, 2019

In America, automobile supremacy means we walk less, but we die more. Evidently we want it that way.

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Having been to Europe numerous times, and at the risk of generalizing, the basic difference is that most European countries put the brake...
Sunday, June 23, 2019

The narcissism of car-centrism, part 2: "Why U.S. pedestrian deaths are at their highest level in almost 30 years."

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It's actually possible to reduce the narcissism of car-centrism: "Unlike the U.S., the E.U. has found ways to redesign vehicles ...
Sunday, March 10, 2019

"Right now pedestrians are being killed and injured by motorists at the highest rate in decades."

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Just think about all those times when the bored of works enumerated the many splendid reasons why they couldn't (read: wouldn't) ...
Saturday, August 25, 2018

Here, there and everywhere, "In crashes that kill pedestrians, the majority of drivers don't face charges."

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Drivers surely comprise the most privileged class of Americans in history. Who else is able to wreak this much havoc with so little fear ...
Friday, May 11, 2018

Pedestrian murders are "increasingly likely to involve SUVs and high-horsepower vehicles, which tend to be driven faster and above the speed limit."

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Insurance Institute for Highway Safety We've been lucky so far, but outside those daily morning and afternoon drive times filled wi...
Sunday, April 22, 2018

If the pickup truck killed the boy, then charge it. Charge SOMETHING or SOMEONE.

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Three times, the newspaper of record stated that a pickup truck struck a boy. Italics have been added. Texas Boy Killed by Truck as Hi...
Friday, March 30, 2018

Unfortunately, yes: "Driverless cars will be allowed to kill us, because capitalism is a death cult."

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It's probably bad etiquette to reprint the whole post, and I do this very seldom, but just this once. Speed kills, and the author lead...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

In the wake of Sunday's pedestrian murder by autonomous Uber in Arizona, councilman McLaughlin renews his call for proper speedway markings.

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They work where I work, he added. Whether Gahan or street grid, if we'd all just stay inside the boundary stripes, it would be so m...
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