Accidents the third leading cause of death in Canada. But what does that mean?
Accidents the third leading cause of death in Canada. But what does that mean?
Heart disease and cancer are well-understood causes of death. The third leading cause — and the surprising range of events it covers — is unexpected
Official vocab guidelines state we no longer refer to these incidents as acccidents, they're now collisions.
It wasn’t the fall that killed them; it was the collision.
That's last year's term. We're now calling them unintended inter-vehicular contact events.
I thought it was "un-requested kinetic energy surplus mitigation manifold"
Well, obviously we need to ban accidents. Someone needs to put some legislation on the table that criminalizes this shit, before it destroys the fabric of our society.
It means we need mandatory driver's education.
Most people don't even know how to merge properly (not even a zipper merge, just the concept of matching/exceeding the lane speed so that you can enter safely) let alone how close to follow, how to use a roundabout, or when to signal and why.
People seem to think signalling is for them and not others, so they signal for literally a split second or don't signal at all and I have no idea how they came up with those maneuvers other than in complete desperation and ignorance.
All of that means that people die/kill people because they're not skilled or knowledgeable enough, something that could be prevented.
I've said it in the past and I'll say it again: we need mandatory driving exams every 5 years for everyone.
BC is getting rid of one of their driving road tests because there's too much demand and not enough people to do the testing. So, the solution is to just let everyone have a license with less training apparently.
Damn, that's crazy. Tbh, I've always liked the idea of being a driving instructor but you generally have to pay to modify your own car (in ON, not sure about BC, of course) and that's prohibitively expensive for me. No wonder there's a low supply of people with instructor experience to do the testing.
I'm more concerned that the first two causes of death are intentional ducks
My fear of ducks is justified!
They aren't accidents if they're statistically consistent and predictable.
You can't have 0 ladder accidents while gravity is constant.
Unless you want the government telling you how to use a ladder.
Within accidents about 8,000 are falls, 7,000 are drug overdoses, and 2,000 are car accidents.
There are ~21,000 "accidents causing death" per year of ~330,000 deaths per year.
People constantly underestimate the danger of ladders.
This is their own fault.