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Originally Posted by Bunk
Just on the scale of the matter - 1.3 million are killed annually. That's the population of Calgary each year. A 9/11 every day. 8000 737 airliners crashing and killing all on board, annually.
20 million to 50 million are injured or disabled to various degrees.
We accept a certain amount of risk for mobility - we have to, but this level of carnage seems a moral failure on our part. Because it's so dispersed and incremental, it's not viewed the same way as a visceral event like a terrorist attack or a plane crash. Yet, its actual impact on society and people individually is orders of magnitude larger.
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Originally Posted by Bunk
I’d say there is a problem in that 1/3 of collisions are in the local street and children are over represented in injuries. I’d also say that collectors still are a bigger problem - they are being examined as well....
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Your posting in this thread has has some seriously cherry picked "facts".
For Canada that number of fatalities is 3129 for 2016 (which is 0.2% of the number you pointed out).
In Alberta ( I couldn't find stats for just Calgary) that number droped to 288, 92 of which happened in an Urban setting.
Of the 288 Province wide casualties, 36 were pedestrians (95 killed on calgary roads from 2005-2014, so 11/year) and, 2 of them were under 15 (4 under 19) - so how are kids over represented?
When it comes to just injuries, there were 1200 injuries, 271 were under 15.
Of all of the collision incidents, less than 30% occurred when the driver was driving properly, which I interpret as the issue isn't we need to change the rules, its that we need to enforce the rules we have.
I found one article that indicated Calgary's stats are 31 pedestrian casualties/100,000 populations compares to that of other major Canadian cities which are 52 pedestrian casualties/100,000 population.
You compare the total number of people killed in the entire world in a year to a single isolated tragic event. Your post is nothing but an attempt at an emotional response and bears no actual data that could be used to justify the speed limit change decision.