Posted on 06/22/2021 11:13:06 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Black people represented the largest increase in traffic deaths last year than any other racial group, even as Americans drove less overall due to the pandemic, according to recently released data.
An estimated 38,680 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes in 2020 — the largest projected number of deaths since 2007, according the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The number of Black people who died in such crashes was up 23 percent from 2019, the largest increase in traffic deaths among racial groups, according to the administration’s report.
Norman Garrick, a civil and environmental engineering professor at the University of Connecticut, said the numbers are saddening, but not surprising.
“Black people tend to be overrepresented as walkers in this country,” Garrick said. “This is not by choice. In many cases, Black folks cannot afford motor vehicles. And people that walk in this country tend to experience a much, much higher rate of traffic fatality. We’re talking eight to 10 times more. It’s a perfect storm of a lot of horrible forces.”
This most likely represents yet another way the health crisis has had an outsize effect on Black people. Even in the early days of the pandemic, the National Safety Council found that the emptier roads were proving to be more deadly, with a 14 percent jump in roadway deaths per miles driven in March. And Black people are more likely to face traffic injuries in general; from 2010-2019, Black pedestrians were 82 percent more likely to be hit by drivers, according to a 2021 report from Smart Growth America, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group focused on urban development.
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Even in the early days of the pandemic, the National Safety Council found that the emptier roads were proving to be more deadly, with a 14 percent jump in roadway deaths per miles driven in March.
Could it be blacks are move likely to walk in streets?
Roads are Raaaaacist!
You forgot to capitalize “Blacks” / sarc
So we’re supposed to buy them new cars now too?
Driving goes down during Covid, but black traffic deaths go up?
Its BLM and defund police
Blacks disproportionately live in cities. Cities are Democrat run. Besides allowing riots and looting, city police have been told not to pursue criminals and especially to limit traffic stops.
Black neighborhoods need MORE law enforcement, not less.
And wear dark clothing at night?
No doubt the fault of devious white supremacists.
they should wear seatbelts
Were they mostly peacefully protesting by blocking freeways at night?
Stupid asinine article is stupid.
If you refilter the study for city dwellers vs rural -you’ll find that black people don’t have as many cars because they live in the city where they don’t NEED cars.
This also leads to much more traffic congestion and crosswalk traffic then you’d get in rural and suburb areas.
I’m sure if you go back and look at pedestrian deaths in suburbs that’s you’ll find white people die at 90% the rate of black people.
Don’t buy into the propaganda folks.
Let me guess.. because blacks have disproportionately greater disregard for the law ?
Out in the streets in the middle of the night
Roads are racist!
(Come to think of it, why are they paved with blacktop and not something like concrete?)
Uh, being chased by racis’ popo!
Expect more traffic deaths when you choose to stand and walk in the road in order to obstruct traffic. Think black lives matter.
Blacktop=Cause whitey wants to run over blacks!
If math be racis, then physics be realzy racis.
All you can see are teeth.
The only way to fix this disparity is for more white people to die in traffic accidents. It’s the only fair way.
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