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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
Yeah, I’m really wondering how push scooters cause more pedestrian fatalities than bicycles. Motorized scooters, I understand, but how the hell does a push scooter have enough mass and speed to kill twice as many people?
That pedestrian who killed a driver is a badass and ill buy them a bottle of their fav sparkling white; i don’t even care.
I guess they died as well.
Buying a french person a bottle of sparkling white would probably kill them
Champaigne is a particular sparkling white.
Other places in france also make it.
Yes and most people don’t buy the actual champagne stuff except maybe for special occasions because a nice crémant does the same job for 1/5th the price.
But cyclists are the real danger in this society.
I posted that in another thread, but it also fits here to provide a broader picture maybe.
Road traffic death rate (per 100 000 population) according to WHO:
- Africa: 19
- Eastern Mediterranean: 16
- South-East Asia: 16
- Western Pacific: 15
- Americas: 14
- Europe: 7
According to the WHO, a road traffic injuries report says:
- Approximately 1.19 million people die each year as a result of road traffic crashes.
- Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death for children and young adults aged 5–29 years.
- 92% of the world’s fatalities on the roads occur in low- and middle-income countries, even though these countries have around 60% of the world’s vehicles.
- More than half of all road traffic deaths are among vulnerable road users, including pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists.
- Road traffic crashes cost most countries 3% of their gross domestic product.
Headline tomorrow: “Other Hits Other. Three Dead.”
So, a pedestrian collided with a car and the car was the fatality?
I’m sure the pedestrian also didn’t survive that scenario.
But yeah this data is a bit confusing.
Maybe the airbag was unsupportive in this case.
Aight, I’m gonna need this in relative/conditional frequencies rather than absolute ones.
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.
Real curious about the three “other” colliding with one another
Skateboard vs pram
What’s “other”? Alien craft?
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.
Turtle dropped from sky
airplanes, UFOs, MISSILES?
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.
Fuck yeah scooters killed 19 cars way to go lil’ guys!
Is this per thousand collisions? …or?
Useless statistics…
Looks like it’s total for the previous year
My goal in life is to be that one pedestrian who takes out a car.
Mad props for the cyclist too
Yeah how did that even happen? Like was it a really buff guy or a really flimsy car?
I would guess a lot of speed and an initial impact that either put the pedestrian through the windshield or resulted in the car losing control.
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.
Traffic accidents might include the rare “oopsie I killed the guy because I thought he was a demon” or something?
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.
Mmmh, I would suppose that to be counted in this statistic they’d need to run at each other really fast and somehow manage to kill each other (or at least one person). Like jousting or goats or something?
Don’t underestimate how easily one can die, if you fall just the wrong way, it can happen. Particularly older folks.
I’d pay to watch bicycle jousting.
Segways too.
There used to be bicycle polo around a few years ago, I’m not sure if they still play it these days, haven’t seen em in a while but it looked pretty fun!
