It depends on what you mean by “on purpose.” You didn’t mean to hit that light pole, but there was a lot of intentionality around the decision to drive and the decision to build a car-based society that is very much “on purpose” and the effect of that is deaths due to cars.
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CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks agoI mean, they are pretty rarely on purpose.
The bar for accidental transit deaths is probably even lower.
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
I mean with malice aforethought by a particular person. Foreseeable or unnecessary accidents are still accidents.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t know, they did write the song “Dumb Ways To Die” to prevent transit accidents.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Ah yes, what a masterpiece of a campaign. Although other Canadians I’ve shown it to seem horrified.
I could be wrong - they clearly happen. But it takes relatively more effort to get run over by a train than a car whizzing by a sidewalk driven by literally whoever.
AA5B@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s the homeless outside the trains I worry about. The only train fatality I have direct experience with was a homeless person “taking a shortcut” across a railroad bridge