victoria-scott
@victoria-scott

In 2022, cars killed 7,508 pedestrians, the equivalent of 18 fully-loaded Boeing 747s crashing with zero survivors. That means a pedestrian died roughly every 70 minutes, with no breaks in the tide of fatalities for weekends or holidays. This flood of death is recent: American roads were demonstrably safer to walk on just a decade ago, with thousands fewer pedestrian deaths.

Experts are unanimous in their assessment of the situation: this is a disaster.

For Motor1.com: Pedestrian deaths are an emergency. We need to start acting like it.


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in my personal experience if people would watch where they're walking instead of thinking "well i have the right away after all" this number probably wouldnt have been so high

Having been hit by two separate cars, I hope you never find out how wrong this comment is. My back will never be the same, my nerves will never be the same. It's things like this that make me wish I could audit people's driving, because just from your lack of concern for pedestrians probably says much for how you drive/park.

I was walking home the other day, and walked past a hedge into someone's driveway - and since I'd been on the sidewalk, there was a little dip, maybe 8 inches, so cars could get onto the road.

On the sidewalk, eyes up, paying attention.

If I'd been two steps ahead, I would've been hit by a truck whose hood was at eye level for me. I'm 5'6" and the driver would not have seen me over the hood of his truck. It's not always the pedestrian's fault - blind corners, unlit roads, hell even the sun in a driver's eyes can turn deadly.

It's not as if I want to get hit. Streets just aren't safe and cars are too big.

Yep! Not to mention those stupid giant trucks only exist because they get a different engine than a normal car and the EPA isn’t authorized to regulate emissions from those engines as much as they can regular cars. They’re risking the lives of everyone on or near the road so they don’t have to try and slow down pollution!