Lazy Reporting Of Pedestrian and Bicyclist Deaths And Injuries

It’s a crash. “The word “accident” exonerates the driver – with the implication that injuries and deaths of people walking or riding bikes are preordained or unavoidable. (This is intentional in our car obsessed culture.)  And the blame is placed on the walker or person on the bike, relying on testimony of the driver because the victim cannot tell his side..read this story which got more coverage than most.

How Lazy Coverage of Pedestrian Deaths Obscures Why Streets Are So Dangerous

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https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/08/08/how-lazy-coverage-of-pedestrian-deaths-obscures-why-streets-are-so-dangerous/