Progress isn’t always positive. Although the occupants of modern cars are undeniably safer in a crashthan they would be in models just a few years old, that’s not true for people usingShank’s ponyOverall, fewer people died on America’s roads in () the last year for which full data is available) than the year before — some (****************************************************, 600 in total. But concealed within that figure is a big rise in the number of pedestrians who were killed by drivers –
6 , 600 in all, an increase of 3.4 percent on
Obviously there’s no single cause to which we can point. More than three-quarters of pedestrians were killed after dark, and a similar percentage were killed while crossing a road, but Americans’ antisocial love for big SUVs needs reckoning with, too
. Obviously this is a problem we need to solve. Some US cities have adopted theVision Zero. project, although few have come anywhere near thesuccess of the Norwegianswhen it comes to shrinking that body count. We could implement far stricter driver training and significantly beef up traffic law enforcement, but only the most naive optimists think there’s any actual possibility of that happening any time soon.
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