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My goal in life is to be that one pedestrian who takes out a car.
Yeah how did that even happen? Like was it a really buff guy or a really flimsy car?
That was Chuck Norris
Car crashed into a building, killed a pedestrian on the way. Any number of scenarios. Doesn’t mean the pedestrian survived.
When a pedestrian collides into another pedestrian and kills them, that’s called “a fist fight.”
Not really. Imagine 2 people walking at a brisk pace walking into each other, eg around a corner. Might kill someone. Usually that’s fine, but sometimes you have bad lick.
A great case for why data normalization is so important.
Looking at the chart like this with non-normalized data you might conclude that riding around on a scooter makes you near invincible compared to walking even if hit by a car.
Whereas what’s really being shown is more people walk than ride scooters.
Yes, but the downside is that you only ever get to kill pedestrians /s
i want more information on the other v other incidents. is this like, clown unicycle vs pogo stick?
Looks like I need to buy a scooter, a van, or an other
Van/lorry kills more cars than they kill other vans/lorries. Top dog in the race to the bottom.
Very curious about the three “question mark vs question mark” fatalities. UFO collision? Skateboard jousting?
This is the sort of chart that should be put in front of children. It’s interesting to read and well designed. And it’s funny to imagine two people bumping into each other being fit for such a chart.
And it has just enough complexity to be at least a bit fascinating to most kids, and especially spectrum kids.
Headline tomorrow: “Other Hits Other. Three Dead.”
Need fewer 4+ wheeled death cages, more walking / biking infrastructure, more and better public transit, and more significant barriers between them.
That question mark? Wargs.
Remember that one time the dumb lady walked out in front of Tour de France? About the only example I can think of which was particularly morbid.
What’s “other”? Alien craft?
Turtle dropped from sky
For the last row, it might be people using e.g. inline skates, skateboards or non-electrical scooters.
For the last column, it could also be unknown vehicle (hit and run).Edit: Busses aren’t included in the chart as a separate category either, so they’re also in the “others” category.
Real curious about the three “other” colliding with one another
Incorrect use of whom. Who kills who (accusative case). Who gets killed by whom (dative case).
It’s the objective case, i.e. everything that isn’t nominative, so this usage would be correct. We don’t have a real distinction between accusative and dative in modern english.
That being said, I’m a descriptivist who is strongly of the opinion that ‘who’ is always correct and ‘whom’ is archaic.
I get that the implicated conclusion here is that cars are orders of magnitude more dangerous. This is true, but I wonder how much this data is being skewed because more people drive cars rather than walk.
From the numbers its sort of implied that these are not per population but rather total numbers which is generally meaningless because some areas are metropolitan and others are long country roads.
Its curious ish but not really a reasonable comparison. Who records people vs people collisions? And in how many people vs people collisions is a knife involved?
Anyway absolute numbers are not particularly interesting, per population per area sounds more useful to give real context. However i will also take this opportunity to say “fuck cars” because over this side of the pond those shitty overcompensating shit trucks with their bull bars should be banned and removed from the road. Absolute death traps and don’t fit into our parking spots
This is in France. Los of people walk rather than drive. It would be interesting to see the numbers adjusted for number of trips, though.
You would be surprised. I would take a bet against you that collectively more distance is completed on foot than in “cars” in france
I get that the implicated conclusion here is that cars are orders of magnitude more dangerous. This is true, but I wonder how much this data is being skewed because more people drive cars rather than walk.
Another thing that would be interesting to know is some number about the scenarios in which the deaths happened.
