...kids were getting hit and killed walking to school buses because it was still dark in the morning.
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Do we know if that is really true?
One study I read said that the window of danger for kids in the morning was minimum because who gets to the bus stop early, but it did have the kids outside playing in the dark before being called in to dinner.
This was, of course, before we had a nation of couch potato kids who don’t play outside anymore. For which the nanny state would arrest the parents unless constantly supervised.