#trafficdeaths — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #trafficdeaths, aggregated by home.social.
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"Three people are killed in one weekend amid dystopian reality of Car Week.”—Sara Rubin, #MontereyCountyNow
Juan Roberto Lopez-Gomez of Gonzales, biking
Brian Roberts of Big Sur, walking
Jerrod Tyson Chapman-Marshall of East SF Bay, riding in a car#TrafficSafety #CarWeek #MontereyCounty #StreetsAreForEveryone #TrafficDeaths #TrafficFatalities
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Prioritising life over cars
VisionZero - Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
"Helsinki, like Oslo and Stockholm, have all but eliminated traffic fatalities. Lower road speeds, automated cameras, and clever city design all helped; but it’s the over-arching vision that made it all possible. More than half of Helsinki’s streets have a speed limit of 30 km/h (approximately 20 mph). Smarter street design also played a key role. Pedestrian and cycling infrastructure was prioritized for upgrades in recent years. More and more people started using public transit or bikes, or just walking."
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/helsinki-went-a-full-year-without-a-traffic-death-how-did-they-do-it/In 2024, Australia experienced its worst road toll in over a decade, with 1,300 fatalities.
https://datahub.roadsafety.gov.au/progress-reporting/monthly-road-deathsCan Australia cut road deaths to zero by 2050? Current trends say no. What’s going wrong?
https://theconversation.com/can-we-cut-road-deaths-to-zero-by-2050-current-trends-say-no-whats-going-wrong-220289
#VisionZero #MobilityDesign #cars #speed #RecklessDriving #motorists #CarDominance #TrafficDeaths #pedestrians #PublicTransport #cycling #RoadToll #SacrificeZone #roads #climate -
https://www.portland.gov/transportation/vision-zero/annual-deadly-traffic-crash-report
#multilanestreets and high speeds continue to be consistent risk factors contributing to #trafficdeaths. In 2024, 71% of traffic deaths occurred on Portland’s 30 deadliest streets and intersections…At least 48% of traffic deaths involved speeding or excessive speeding.
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Woman who survived Nazis, Chernobyl, COVID killed while crossing Brooklyn street, police say
https://gothamist.com/news/woman-who-survived-nazis-chernobyl-covid-killed-while-crossing-brooklyn-street-police-say#fuckcars #urbanism #trafficdeaths #pedestrian #brooklyn #newyorkcity #publicsafety
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I've been thinking about posting this story for a few days. A timely topic! @breadandcircuses @jensorensen
The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with ridiculously large cars
Dangerous, polluting #SUVs and pickups took over America. Lawmakers are partly to blame.
by David Zipper, April 2024
"Cars, you might have noticed, have grown enormous.
"Low-slung station wagons are all but extinct on American roads, and even sedans have become an endangered species. (Ford, producer of the iconic Model T a century ago, no longer sells any sedans in its home market.) Bulky SUVs and pickup trucks — which have themselves steadily added pounds and inches — now comprise more than four out of every five new cars sold in the US, up from just over half in 2013, even as national household size steadily declines.
"The expanding size of automobiles — a phenomenon I call #CarBloat — has deepened a slew of national problems. Take #RoadSafety: Unlike peer nations, the US has endured a steep rise in #TrafficDeaths, with fatalities among #pedestrians and #cyclists, who are at elevated risk in a crash with a huge car, recently hitting 40-year highs. Vehicle occupants face danger as well. A 2019 study concluded that compared to a smaller vehicle, an SUV or a pickup colliding with a smaller car was 28 percent and 159 percent, respectively, more likely to kill that car’s driver.
"Car bloat also threatens the planet. Because heavier vehicles require more energy to move, they tend to gulp rather than sip the gasoline or electricity that powers them, increasing #GreenhouseGas emissions. Extra weight also accelerates the erosion of #roadways and #tires, straining highway maintenance budgets and releasing #microplastics that damage #ecosystems."
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> Family wants mom charged: 'He was speeding over and over, and mom knew it'
What if--and hear me out--we simply make speed limiters on cars mandatory?
#car #cars #driving #speeding #trafficDeaths #visionZero #20isPlenty
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I remarked yesterday that #cycling round the city on a cold but clear + sunny day made me resent the smell of petrol + diesel engines. But the adoption of #EV's in #Norway appears to have had fatal consequences on pedestrians due to weight.
The statistics on US #TrafficDeaths are *appalling*.
This piece makes me wonder if anything can ever be done about any easy to solve problem in a polarised land.
America’s obsession with big cars has fatal consequences - https://on.ft.com/3J4Rht1 via @FT
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#NYC #TrafficDeaths in 2022 up from pre-pandemic levels, near equal to shooting deaths https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-traffic-deaths-in-2022-up-from-pre-pandemic-levels-near-equal-to-shooting-deaths
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Highway warnings about traffic deaths may increase crashes, study finds - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Aurich Lawson)
Electronic sign... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1849683 #distracteddriving #trafficdeaths #roadsafety #science #texas #cars
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Manslaughter charges follow Tesla driver’s Autopilot red light run - Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images)
Prosecutors in ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1826601 #trafficdeaths #autopilot #tesla #cars
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More than 20,000 people died on US roads in the first half of 2021 - Enlarge / Anecdotally, I have never seen as much lawless driving as I h... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1809320 #nationalhighwaytrafficsafetyadministration #trafficdeaths #trafficsafety #roaddeaths #nhtsa #cars
