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Comment on Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things is treated as a safety crisis in the media

Rockbear@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Amazing.

The Chicago metropolitan area has about one and a half times the population of denmark and five times the traffic fatalities.

(And 150 times the gun murders, but it’s kind of a given that the US is completely whack on that compared to the rest of the western world)

You should really look into both.

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Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
They don’t have 50+ hours of mandatory training before hitting the roads like we do. In some states you can practically just go to an exam and luck out.

Their perception of freedom is messed up and literally causing huge amounts of unnecessary deaths.

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- HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  There is also a lot more driving in the USA, even in a decent transit area like Chicago.
  
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  - Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Very true, we do like our bicycles
    
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