destructdisc@lemmy.world to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days agoTIL that Halloween is, by far, the most dangerous day of the year for child pedestrians.lemmy.zipexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1117arrow-down119file-textcross-posted to: til@lemmy.world
arrow-up198arrow-down1external-linkTIL that Halloween is, by far, the most dangerous day of the year for child pedestrians.lemmy.zipdestructdisc@lemmy.world to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days agomessage-square11fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: til@lemmy.world
minus-square😀🚲@urbanists.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down1·19 days agocars are the number one killer of children, kids just usually don’t go out at night or it would be worse on the other 364 days #BanCars #CarsRuinEverything
minus-squarebrown567@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·edit-219 days agoCars aren’t actually #1 for juvenile deaths in the US anymore Not because there are any less car deaths, they’ve just been passed up by guns at this juncture 😬 Edit: car deaths actually reduced by about half between 2000 and 2010, but the increase in firearm deaths is staggering: https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/126304/cdc_126304_DS1.pdf
cars are the number one killer of children, kids just usually don’t go out at night or it would be worse on the other 364 days #BanCars #CarsRuinEverything
Cars aren’t actually #1 for juvenile deaths in the US anymore
Not because there are any less car deaths,they’ve just been passed up by guns at this juncture 😬Edit: car deaths actually reduced by about half between 2000 and 2010, but the increase in firearm deaths is staggering: https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/126304/cdc_126304_DS1.pdf