Pic taken from roadway.report, an interactive map of all known roadway deaths in the USA.
Fatalities resulting from motor vehicle crashes are the third largest cause of accidental deaths in the United States. On average for 2024 there were over 100 deaths per day on US roads.
https://roadway.report/population
They have a per capita adjusted map too. Cities are much lower than rural areas generally.
They even provide access to the underlying data.
https://roadway.report/accidents/
I wasn’t really surprised by that. My county is corrupt to the core, and intentional hit and runs are written up and reported as accidental, unless you aren’t paying or related to people.
that’s crazy to think about, you think of cities being way worse, but I guess it does make sense.
Rural people drive faster, and there are very few pedestrians.
Smaller cities are light on pedestrians and very car focused, meaning those few pedestrians have drivers who are less used to pedestirans, and drivers still drive like they’re on highways.
I was in Albuquerque recently, and I have never felt less safe as a pedestrian. You have people swerving through intersections, being surprised we were walking on the walk signal, upset with us, we had to walk around parked cars, into traffic, it was horrible.
Rural areas also have less well-maintained roads, poorer lighting, and more wildlife that may run into the road, in addition to requiring more driving because everything is further apart.
more likely to have larger cars as well, whereas in cities there’s probably some sort of incentive to having a slightly smaller car for at least some people
Rural areas tend to require 4-wheel drive more often, which tends to be offered more often on SUVs and the like (the added clearance doesn’t hurt). But cars across the board in the US have been getting larger for the last 30 years, to the point it’s even causing problems with road maintenance. The more compact vehicles common in Asian and European cities are often not even sold in the US anymore.
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I don’t care either. Disengage.
Lemmy.ml doesn’t formally follow the disengage rule, but I think we’re generally likely to honor it.
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