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Is this the year California OKs speed cameras? (www.latimes.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by omenmis to c/citylife

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hoping this catches on, pretty please CA...

i like the fact that the money can only go into maintaining the speed cameras or into making the road safer. those are both things desperately needed, especially in LA.

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[–] Pseu 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In 2021, there were 6,100 fatal crashes with a pedestrian, of 120,000 total crashes that resulted in injury or fatality. This is a fatality rate of arout 5%. Rear end crashes had 2900 fatal crashes out of ~3.3 million that resulted in injury or fatality. This is a fatality rate of around 0.08%.

https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/overview/type-of-crash/

This heavily implies that crashes involving pedestrians are far more dangerous than rear-endings, as common sense would suggest.

So I would definitely exchange one pedestrian incident for several rear endings, as the potential harm is less for each rear-ending than for each pedestrian strike.

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