The situation in Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦 is out of control. A driver killed a one-year-old girl in Calgary. A few hours later, another driver killed a nine-year-old girl near Edmonton.
Both happened just outside their homes
https://globalnews.ca/news/11318727/calgary-toddler-dies-struck-by-vehicle-taradale/
The vehicle didn’t hit them. A person driving the vehicle did. Stop with this regurgitation of passive police reports.
"9-year-old... hit by truck." Someone should go have a talk with these trucks.
Yes. The car the person was in didn't hit them. When it got close enough, it transformed. Then the person spiderman'd off their wheel (now 10ft in the air) and kicked the poor little girl.
If we want to be correct, a car doesn't work like a gun. Bullets kill people. Guns shoot bullets and people shoot guns. Saying "Guns shoot people" or "people shoot people" isn't a stretch.
When dealing with collisions, saying "the vehicle didn't hit them, the person did" means the one hit never came into contact with the car.
Neither does a shooting victm come into contact with the gun or shooter. This is why the analogy works for guns and not cars.
That person was most definitely hit by a car. But today, like a hudered years ago and for the forseeable future, someone was driving that car. So yeah, they were hit by the drivier of the car. But they werem't hit by the driver and not the car. Then they must've stopped driving and given the victim a run for their money with a baseball bat. Which, again, most definitely did hit them.
Putting the news site aside, you are in a community called "fuck cars". We focus on the issue with big cars, not reckless drivers.
We point out how ridiculous it is that north america gives multi-ton death machines to 16 year olds, alcoholics, senile people, and everyone in between because you can't take away peoples driving licenses when there is no alternative transportation.
If you are here looking for humans to hate, you should probably find a different community.
"Charges pending"
Gotta love how its "save the kids, protect the future" up until thier precious cars are at stake.
Also why tf do cops have a giant ass pickup truck now
A fleet should be a mix so when an actual pickup truck might be needed one is available.
I imagine the mix is out of proportion though for some stupid reason.
Sometimes, they’re in the cop fleet because of civil asset forfeiture. Same reason they sometimes have Porsches and shit like that.
It’s Alberta, everybody and everything has a massive pickup truck. It’s the Texas of Canada, especially Calgary.
I don't want to ban pick up trucks.
Instead, put 15km/h (10mph) speed limits in residential areas, 40km/h (25mph) speed limits on arterial roads, and an 105km/h (65mph) electronic highway speed limiter, exclusively for vehicles with bonnet height above 40" or 1m. That will mitigate the danger these vehicles have on our roads.
Vehicle-specific speed limits are long overdue. Even having 2 or 3 categories would go a long way.
That would only work if it's enforced. It'd be significantly harder to enforce that than a ban. I'll take the ban please.
Enforcement, or the need for constant traffic surveillance, has already been raised as a problem with this approach. People tend to drive as fast as they feel safe on most streets, with the occasional unaware jerk screwing everything up. The threat of a possible ticket doesn't really work, or else we wouldn't have these problems in the first place.
A better approach is re-engineering streets for traffic calming. Basically threaten drivers with breaking or damaging their vehicle if they try too drive fast and/or in a straight line. Way more effective.
I agree, but I living in Toronto I found that people wanted to go 20-30% above the limit, so when it was 60 drivers would go 75-80, now it's 50 so they go 60-65.
It's not stupid if you're an oil company trying to increase profits, then it makes perfect sense to make your oil guzzling death machine as big, bulky and inefficient as possible.
These trucks don't off road. They are pavement princesses.
a slanted down hood is required if you want to sell your cars in EU and most countries of Asia. Anything else negligent homicide, and the car makers should be held accountable
Their solution is to add a trail cam on the front so you can run over kids with impunity while also watching your line while off-roading.
And I bet the car brains blame the children.
Had someone tell me that arresting a child for walking to the park alone was ok because of all the cars.
Why were the outside??
Also: kids these days!!
CAR*
thats what happen when the hood of cars become taller than actual children. Ford is responsible for countless of deaths.
Children
*Adults
Front-view cameras for giant trucks?
Not a bad idea past a certain height
Those kids should have driven a pickup and carried a gun to defend themselves.
I'd phrase it "The situation with huge oversized vehicles is out of control!". We want standards back not "everything goes" in the name of profit.
What makes it out of control? Are we significantly above baseline pedestrian deaths relative to previous years?
What is the acceptable amount of dead children, that if kept at that level makes letting people drive gigantic emotional support trucks worth it?
"You know what I've noticed? Nobody panics when things go 'according to plan'. Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all 'part of the plan'. But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds."
Well none would be the best obviously but that isn't acknowledging reality. In my city we have a mandatory 25 mph max speed limit in residential neighborhoods and it is highly enforced. Policy changes can prevent these situations.
any amount of dead children should be out of control.
Maybe previous years have been out of control too? Especially since it is possible to cut down on traffic fatalities with policy changes.
https://www.motor1.com/news/767353/this-city-went-a-year-without-a-traffic-death/
a white pickup truck ... the driver made a turn to continue north, striking the toddler.
The 9-year-old was sitting on her skateboard, which was rolling off the driveway, when she was struck by a Dodge pickup, RCMP said in a release.
Both vehicles involved are the type that make it impossible to see kids standing 10 feet away. These should he banned unless a second person is spotting, like what you'd do around construction vehicles.
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Now there's peak carbrain, just phrase it as insanely as when cops shoot a completely innocent person for no reason.
jfc like anybody asked, why even include that
I see it in every article when a pedestrian or cyclist is killed, as if there was a chance the driver would be even mildly injured. Or that anyone would care, seeing how they killed someone else.
It's infuriating.
Because property has more rights than people in a hypercapitalist hellworld.