Did you all know that in the US, simply owning an SUV means you will kill 3.5 times more car occupants in side impact than someone owning a midsized car? This accoding to the US DOT. This is true for larger SUVs.
For midsized SUV owners, you will only kill 2.5 times as many car occupants.
This data is based on car occupant deaths per registered SUV. Not deaths per crash. So, just owning and operating an SUV results in way more fatalites than owning and operating a mid sized car (and up to twice as many fatalities as large cars).
Interstingly enough, driving drunk puts 4 times more people in the hospital with serious injury. (Same is true for cell phone users behind the wheel.) These are stats I read everywhere, I don't know the source.
Ergo, owning an SUV is FAR WORSE than driving drunk. This bung-hole SUV driver should have been shot as he drove his new SUV off the lot.
A hamburer bun tossed in his face is NOTHING compared to what he deserves.
Pedestrian fatalities in the US were close to 50% of ALL car related deaths in 1939. Over the decades, as fewer and fewer people walked, that percentage has dropped to about 8%.
So, you see, as new technology comes about, and people upgrade to vehicles (or bigger vehicels), then all those left behind end up paying with their lives.
Motorcycles were much more popular than cars before the affordable Model T. Now what? Now we mostly drive cars and light trucks, and motorcyclists get killed by cars and light trucks in a 1100-to-17 ratio. That's about the same ratio of car and light truck occupats geting killed by semi-tractor trailers. Semis account for 20% of all deaths from multi-vehicle crashes, and 98% of those are the car drivers.
And, as US highways become more and more crowded with semis, and more and more railroads are converted to bicycle paths, bicyclists and pedestrians will see more and more car and light truck drivers getting killed at ever-increasing rates by semis.
So, it all works out in the end, eventually.
But, in the meantime, that SUV driver should still be shot.
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The individual photos -- and backstory -- are available here:
http://www.citynoise.org/article/2770
Did you all know that in the US, simply owning an SUV means you will kill 3.5 times more car occupants in side impact than someone owning a midsized car? This accoding to the US DOT. This is true for larger SUVs.
For midsized SUV owners, you will only kill 2.5 times as many car occupants.
This data is based on car occupant deaths per registered SUV. Not deaths per crash. So, just owning and operating an SUV results in way more fatalites than owning and operating a mid sized car (and up to twice as many fatalities as large cars).
Interstingly enough, driving drunk puts 4 times more people in the hospital with serious injury. (Same is true for cell phone users behind the wheel.) These are stats I read everywhere, I don't know the source.
Ergo, owning an SUV is FAR WORSE than driving drunk. This bung-hole SUV driver should have been shot as he drove his new SUV off the lot.
A hamburer bun tossed in his face is NOTHING compared to what he deserves.
Pedestrian fatalities in the US were close to 50% of ALL car related deaths in 1939. Over the decades, as fewer and fewer people walked, that percentage has dropped to about 8%.
So, you see, as new technology comes about, and people upgrade to vehicles (or bigger vehicels), then all those left behind end up paying with their lives.
Motorcycles were much more popular than cars before the affordable Model T. Now what? Now we mostly drive cars and light trucks, and motorcyclists get killed by cars and light trucks in a 1100-to-17 ratio. That's about the same ratio of car and light truck occupats geting killed by semi-tractor trailers. Semis account for 20% of all deaths from multi-vehicle crashes, and 98% of those are the car drivers.
And, as US highways become more and more crowded with semis, and more and more railroads are converted to bicycle paths, bicyclists and pedestrians will see more and more car and light truck drivers getting killed at ever-increasing rates by semis.
So, it all works out in the end, eventually.
But, in the meantime, that SUV driver should still be shot.
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