Why yes. Yes my neighborhood is one of the death-on-a-stick neighborhoods. And no. None of the three times I got hit by cars are included in that statistic.

The "High Injury Network" linked is a delightful data-is-beautiful ArcGIS explosion.

tacocat:

Georgia is also near the top of pedestrian death entirely because of Atlanta. I live in a pretty poor Atlanta suburb. There's an elaborate pedestrian crossing I drive by every day that's in the part of this suburb where all the public housing is. I wonder how many poor people died before whatever local government apparatus decided to put a red light for pedestrians at the intersection between the Family Dollar and the gas station that shares a parking lot with a liquor store


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