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Re: Another SMART fatality-EVIL KILLER THOMAS! No slow seniors and big SUV;s, really?
Author: BOB2
Date: 09-01-2018 - 02:50
Commenter Wrote:
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> I was watching and waiting for guns to kill more
> people than cars. But then the price of gas went
> down and the miles driven went up and cars now
> kill about 50% more people than guns in the US.
> Interestingly the number of pedestrian involved
> accidents has gone up only 10% or so but the
> number of pedestrian deaths has risen 60%. There
> are lots of theories about this but it has been
> noted that this is not so in Europe.
Utter and complete rubbish.
Highway deaths had been around 33,000 per year for the period 2009 through 2014, and were back up to around 37,000 by 2016, about a 15% increase, since that low period, from a variety of causes, but especially from increased pedestrian deaths, which are up by nearly 50% as a percentage of those killed, in the last decade, to a record of over 6,000 killed annually. Try this link for data:
Auto pedestrian deaths 2006-2015
>
> The difference seems to be the increase in pickup
> trucks and SUVs. They have more power and so tend
> to be driven faster. They also have an almost flat
> front. Instead of hitting pedestrians (and
> cyclists) in the legs and throwing them up on the
> hood they hid them in the torso, throw them
> forward and then run them over.
Another annectdotal assertion for which there is no specific data available to support.
>
> Some say the problem is walking (or driving) while
> texting (or talking on the phone). However there
> has been an increase in the number of older people
> killed. Older people walk slower, like those on
> phones, so these people were killed because they
> were walking while old.
More speculation, for which there is no real data.....
Approximately 1 in 5 pedestrian deaths are indeed Seniors (although there is no data which shows this changing lately), about 1 in 5 are also children, and 34% of pedestrian fatalities are legally impaired on alcohol (similar to the DUI driving fatality rate, as opposed to the nearly 40% legally impaired on alcohol in bicycle fatalities).
As to causality of pedestrian fatalities with Seniors, there is no evidence at all to support your "walking while old" thesis. It turs out that Seniors like to do stupid things like drink and walk, text and walk, too. But, they are run over, like most other pedestrians, by many more idiots texting while driving, drunk driving, and running lights and crosswalks, just like the rest of us.
As for choo-choo deaths from all causes, try this source.
FRA Rail Accident Summary
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> I was watching and waiting for guns to kill more
> people than cars. But then the price of gas went
> down and the miles driven went up and cars now
> kill about 50% more people than guns in the US.
> Interestingly the number of pedestrian involved
> accidents has gone up only 10% or so but the
> number of pedestrian deaths has risen 60%. There
> are lots of theories about this but it has been
> noted that this is not so in Europe.
Utter and complete rubbish.
Highway deaths had been around 33,000 per year for the period 2009 through 2014, and were back up to around 37,000 by 2016, about a 15% increase, since that low period, from a variety of causes, but especially from increased pedestrian deaths, which are up by nearly 50% as a percentage of those killed, in the last decade, to a record of over 6,000 killed annually. Try this link for data:
Auto pedestrian deaths 2006-2015
>
> The difference seems to be the increase in pickup
> trucks and SUVs. They have more power and so tend
> to be driven faster. They also have an almost flat
> front. Instead of hitting pedestrians (and
> cyclists) in the legs and throwing them up on the
> hood they hid them in the torso, throw them
> forward and then run them over.
Another annectdotal assertion for which there is no specific data available to support.
>
> Some say the problem is walking (or driving) while
> texting (or talking on the phone). However there
> has been an increase in the number of older people
> killed. Older people walk slower, like those on
> phones, so these people were killed because they
> were walking while old.
More speculation, for which there is no real data.....
Approximately 1 in 5 pedestrian deaths are indeed Seniors (although there is no data which shows this changing lately), about 1 in 5 are also children, and 34% of pedestrian fatalities are legally impaired on alcohol (similar to the DUI driving fatality rate, as opposed to the nearly 40% legally impaired on alcohol in bicycle fatalities).
As to causality of pedestrian fatalities with Seniors, there is no evidence at all to support your "walking while old" thesis. It turs out that Seniors like to do stupid things like drink and walk, text and walk, too. But, they are run over, like most other pedestrians, by many more idiots texting while driving, drunk driving, and running lights and crosswalks, just like the rest of us.
As for choo-choo deaths from all causes, try this source.
FRA Rail Accident Summary
