#trafficfatalities — Public Fediverse posts
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The Register: Pop music fans literally dying to stream hot new albums – in car crashes, that is . “A group of researchers affiliated with Harvard Medical School recently issued a working paper reporting an association between the release days of the most-streamed albums and an increase in US traffic fatalities. The authors say the pattern is consistent with smartphone-enabled driver […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/24/the-register-pop-music-fans-literally-dying-to-stream-hot-new-albums-in-car-crashes-that-is/ -
Mayor John Whitmire is not planning to attend the Texas Vision Zero Summit that will be held in downtown Houston on Friday, but his stances on transportation issues figure to be at the forefront.
#CityOfHouston #Events #Houston #HoustonMayor #Infrastructure #Local #News #Traffic #Transportation #HoustonMayorJohnWhitmire #HoustonTraffic #HoustonTransportation #TexasVisionZeroSummit #TrafficFatalities #VisionZero
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Houston is deemphasizing its commitment to Vision Zero under new Mayor John Whitmire, which could reverse the modest progress the city has made in traffic safety and hinder its ability to receive federal grant funding for transportation projects.
#CityOfHouston #Houston #HoustonMayor #Infrastructure #Local #News #PublicSafety #Traffic #Transportation #HoustonTraffic #HoustonTransportation #LINKHouston #TrafficFatalities #TransportationPlanning #VisionZero
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Unsafe street conditions in Houston are not only resulting in fatalities and serious injuries among children, but they may also be contributing to kids’ physical and mental health problems, according to a Rice University study.
#Houston #Infrastructure #Local #News #PublicSafety #Transportation #BakerInstituteForPublicPolicy #BikeHouston #LINKHouston #PedestrianFatalities #RiceUniversity #TrafficFatalities
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The Department of Transportation grant will target two neighborhoods recently found among the most dangerous in Houston in terms of traffic injuries and fatalities for children.
#Flooding #Infrastructure #News #Politics #Transportation #Alief #BidenAdministration #CongresswomanLizzieFletcher #FloodMitigation #Gulfton #InflationReductionAct #KashmereGardens #SidewalkRepair #TrafficAccidents #TrafficFatalities #TreePlanting #USDepartmentOfTransportation
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C a r h a r m:
A global review of automobility's harm to people and the environmentAbstract
"Despite the widespread harm caused by cars and automobility, governments, corporations, and individuals continue to facilitate it by expanding roads, manufacturing larger vehicles, and subsidising parking, electric cars, and resource extraction. This literature review synthesises the negative consequences of automobility, or car harm, which we have grouped into four categories:
violence,
ill health,
social injustice, and
environmental damage.""We find that, since their invention, cars and automobility have killed 60–80 million people and injured at least 2 billion. Currently, 1 in 34 deaths are caused by automobility."
"Cars have exacerbated social inequities and damaged ecosystems in every global region, including in remote car-free places. While some people benefit from automobility, nearly everyone—whether or not they drive—is harmed by it. Slowing automobility's violence and pollution will be impracticable without the replacement of policies that encourage car harm with policies that reduce it. To that end, the paper briefly summarises interventions that are ready for implementation."
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692324000267
#cars #harm #automobility #violence #MobilityDesign #externalities #SUVs #pollution #TrafficFatalities #PublicHealth #ecosystems #climate #BiodiversityCrisis #Bellingen #MasterPlan #parking #BellingenShire -
Cars are getting 1cm wider every two years
"New cars have become so big that half of them are too wide to fit in parking spaces designed to the minimum on-street standards, in many countries."
"SUVs drive trend for new cars to grow 1cm wider in UK and EU every two years, says report.Bigger cars more likely to kill people, release more toxic gas and are outgrowing design of cities."
"They argue that the trend towards bigger cars has reduced the space for other road users and increased the danger."
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/22/cars-growing-wider-europe-reportThe effect of front-end vehicle height on pedestrian death risk>>
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212012224000017#TrafficFatalities #SUVs #MEGASUVs #BIG #cars #externalities #pedestrians #deaths #cyclists #FootTraffic #SpatialJustice #MobilityDesign #pollution #climate
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The driver "told police she'd been driving home from playing tennis when she 'felt something collide with her vehicle" after she went through the green light at Ashby Avenue and Adeline Street. ... The debris field from the crash led police to conclude that unsafe speed had been the primary collision factor."
https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2023/04/22/traffic-safety/fatal-berkeley-hit-run-driver-held-to-answer/
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Check out this research review on the public health consequences of legalizing non-medical marijuana—on youth, alcohol use, abuse of prescriptive opioids, traffic fatalities, and crime.
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20211635&&from=f
#NICHDimpact #PublicHealth #Marijuana #Youth #Alcohol #Opioids #OpioidAbuse #TrafficFatalities #Crime
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“According to the Colorado Department of Transportation, an estimated 745 people died in traffic crashes statewide in 2022 — a 57% increase in the past 10 years.”
…“36% of traffic fatalities involved people who were not in a vehicle, such as pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcyclists. That percentage is the highest on record since 1975” #colorado #trafficfatalities
https://www.denverpost.com/2023/01/23/colorado-traffic-fatalities-2022-cdot-safety-program/
