@OrionFed
I don't think it's misleading at all. First of all, ~15-20% of road deaths are pedestrians, not people in cars. Second, this shows the size of the problem in society, which is what actually matters. Yes, cars are also safer in Europe — smaller cars and an order of magnitude more driver training required in most places — but that's not the point here.
@kim_harding
@dymaxion @OrionFed @kim_harding indeed, as a non-motorist, I am more interested in my chance of being killed by one than I am in the relative safety of driving.
@hans @kim_harding @OrionFed @dymaxion and regarding the earlier suggestion that most Europeans travel by train, that is a gross misrepresentation of the truth. The USA has a major problem, as it is the ONLY country on the planet which has rising numbers of pedestrian deaths. This is due principally to the move towards increasingly larger “SUV” vehicles with increasingly poor visibility.
@peterbrown doesn’t Canada have very similar stats for vehicle size but far less of a rise in fatalities?