No, see my rant. #32.
They are regulating safety to the point it is causing more accidents in the first place!
Blame government, being Safety NAZIs, ironically.
Um, yes: Our comments both dovetail.
What I listed is what is occurring merely in my own county; I assure you that it’s commonplace and that the ‘statistics’ don’t bear pertinent details.
We are being regulated on both ends of the spectrum to higher body counts, and the explosion of so-called ‘pedestrian safety corridors’ does not help. The argument in my state is primarily fueling the “devehicularization” of clogged cities, and despite all the push toward ‘Vision Zero’ pedestrian injuries/fatalities continue to rise.
I taught driver safety for a time, and my classes were the genesis of “the bob”...a necessary forward/back upper body movement when looking in each direction and I framed it this way:
Regardless the fault of vehicle designers and pedestrians themselves, we play the cards we’re dealt: No driver ‘chooses’ to cope with the fallout of injuring/killing a pedestrian, and should not so with decisions which result in such tragedy.
Otherwise I agree totally with your comments.