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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFOX News is reporting about the rise of pedestrian deaths
And how the cause is because of the increase in the use of cell phones and SUVs on the road.
"There needs to be some big changes. This needs to be a National priority."
Really? You don't say? More people using a device or vehicle causing a death means we have to make changes? Like, say, a ban on them? Regulating their use?
A National priority.
Huh.
Judi Lynn
(160,219 posts)AwakeAtLast
(14,112 posts)They are allergic to irony.
Wounded Bear
(58,441 posts)Apparently, that would be safer.
AwakeAtLast
(14,112 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,076 posts).
As you may have heard, since a lot was written about it a few weeks ago, pedestrian deaths are on the rise in the U.S. The Governors Highway Safety Association estimated, based on data from the first half of the year, that 6,227 pedestrians were killed in traffic accidents in 2018. This would be a whopping 50 percent more than were killed in 2009. Adjusted for population, the increase hasnt been quite so steep, and seems like it might have halted after 2016. But after decades of declines, the turnaround since 2009 is still awful.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-19/pedestrian-deaths-are-rising-on-america-s-roads
Phoenix, AZ and many parts of Florida are high risk areas.
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Maru Kitteh
(28,303 posts)I mean, look at their hero.