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Canadian city calls for emergency help following record high-traffic fatalities. Last year, pedestrian deaths increased by 225 per cent

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨daniel_callahan@jlai.lu⁩ to ⁨mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world⁩

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  • jupyter_rain@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “The rising fatality figures come one day after the public learned a teenage skateboarder had died after colliding with an SUV last week.”

    There. There you have it. All the possible causes lined out in the article like inexperienced drivers obviously CAN also bei a cause, but SUVs are sure one big problem, which no one wants to acknowledge.

    For example: iihs.org/…/new-study-suggests-todays-suvs-are-mor…

    Or

    lshtm.ac.uk/…/being-hit-suv-increases-likelihood-…

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  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Step one: build rapidly, with little more than token acknowledgment that there is an alternative to cars for transportation.

    Step two: act shocked and surprised when cars (trucks, really) travel at high rate of speed through the streets (that are designed to move traffic around quickly) and kill pedestrians and cyclists.

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