• StarManta@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Without normalizing for the number of these vehicles on the road this data is not meaningful. No matter how much I appreciate the depiction of cars as murder machines.

    There were zero children killed by Titan submarines in the last twenty years, we should clearly take inspiration from this beacon of safety!

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      1 year ago

      Also splitting cars in group like SUVs, pickup trucks and small cars is important when it comes to murder on the road

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      A child runs out from behind a car directly into the path of Usain Bolt thus replicating the opening scene of The Boys.

      Edit: Actually I misremembered, the opening scene is Homelander and Maeve. I’m talking Hughie’s girlfriend having a run in with A-Train.

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      Probably the child bump into an adult, fell to the ground and hit his/her skull too hard.

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    Wait, a pedestrian-child collision resulted in a fatality? How hard was the guy’s stride?

    Also, holy shit a child is more likely to die from a collision in a car than walking?!

    Also also, this data is from 2020, during the pandemic when a lot of people were isolating and not going out. One can only imagine that the typical numbers are much higher.

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      You are not.

      A child died from a collision with a pedestrian, but the age of the pedestrian is unspecified.

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    2 years ago

    This data can equally be read as “there are a lot more cars than pedestrian/cyclists/moped/etc and if we increase those numbers, the deaths will likewise increase there”