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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

The Calgary Sun reported that a 5 year old boy was hit by a car on May 17, 2014 and was rushed to hospital in serious but stable condition.
http://www.calgarysun.com/2014/05/17...-car-in-rundle

7 year old boy was taken to hospital with life threatening head injuries after being hit by a car at 4pm on March 13, 2014.
http://globalnews.ca/news/1207204/bo...ck-by-vehicle/

13 year old boy was rushed to ACH with life threatening injuries on Nov 26, 2013 after being hit at 6pm.
http://calgary.ctvnews.ca/boy-hit-by...gary-1.1560906

Do you need more?

Interesting:

The first one looks like it would have been in a Playground zone during its hours of activation. The vehicle was traveling at a low rate of speed.

The second one was in a School zone as the kid ran from behind a school bus to meet a relative parked on the other side of the street. The vehicle was traveling at a low rate of speed.

The third one doesn't have much information, but the Sun's story on it gives some more details: http://www.calgarysun.com/2013/11/26...thwest-calgary. It doesn't appear to be near a playground or school zone, and witnesses say that the the kid who was hit ran in front of the vehicle, and the driver didn't have time to react.



So, basically none of those accidents would have been less likely to occur because of these changes (I know that wasn't the question you were answering), and none of them appear to be the drivers' fault or the result of excessive speed.

The first two seem to be perfect examples of the false sense of security people get when they're in playground or school zones. No one would stand on one side of Macleod Trail and ask a 7-year-old to run across the road to meet them, yet parents do this all the time when picking their kids up from school. Sure the roads aren't as busy as Macleod, but getting hit by a car doing 30 is only going to be slightly less painful than getting hit by a car doing 50.