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British #actress Emma Watson has been banned from #driving for 6 months after being caught speeding by #ThamesValleyPolice in #Oxford - 38 mph in a 30 mph zone, quite a bit over the limit - and Oxford is a busy city with many #pedestrians and cyclists.

She was banned due to already having 9 demerit points on her licence (and should know better, being a student at the University so surely would be familiar with the city's #traffic patterns?)

#RoadSafety #England

itv.com/news/2025-07-16/harry-

The solutions come with privacy implications.

"Local governments are turning to AI-powered cameras to monitor intersections and catch drivers who see stop signs as mere suggestions. [...] The carrot is safer roads and lower insurance rates; the stick is citations for those who break the law."

spectrum.ieee.org/ai-intersect

IEEE Spectrum · AI Intersection Monitoring Could Yield Safer Streets
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Reviewing some of the 228-pg technical memo summarizing crash data collected as part of Monterey County Regional Vision Zero Plan (RVZP) development process.

"The report analyzes crash data from Jan 1, 2019, to Dec 31, 2023, in #MontereyCounty, based on TIMS [Transportation Injury Mapping System] analytics data as of Feb 26, 2025.
...
"During this period, 8,145 crashes were recorded…[including] 203 fatal crashes and 843 severe injury crashes….Primary causes were unsafe speed (28%), improper turning (17%), and automobile right-of-way violations (16%).
"Pedestrian-involved crashes totaled 577, resulting in 159 severe injuries or fatalities, while 381 bicyclist-involved crashes resulted in 57 severe injuries or fatalities.

"Key behavioral factors included aggressive driving (35.1%) and impaired driving (13%).”
bikemonterey.org/vision-zero-f
#VisionZero #MontereyCounty #TrafficSafety #speed #AggressiveDriving #Pedestrians #Cyclists #transportation #traffic

bikemonterey.orgVision Zero for Monterey County: Crash Data, 2019-2023 | Bicycling Monterey | Resources for Anywhere & Monterey County Biking Information Hub

With all due respect, any driver who is upset by this has anger issues to the extent that they're a danger to others and should not be driving...

Lollipop man banned from giving children 'high fives' because it 'upsets drivers':
examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-y

Yorkshire Live · Lollipop man banned from giving children 'high fives' because it upsets driversHe was told 'it upsets some drivers having to wait another ten seconds'

Autonomous vehicles - forcing the public to change at the risk of death or injury

A decent perspective on the mind set of many of the makers of ‘autonomous’ vehicles and their political friends. And as the writer points out, there are no jaywalkers in the UK. Just pedestrians.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · The car made pedestrians second-class citizens. Don’t let driverless vehicles push us off the road altogetherBy Adam Tranter

"Bigger cars
mean bigger costs for everyone else. Larger vehicles – no matter how they are powered – generally impose bigger costs on society than smaller cars."

"Now, SUVs and light commercial vehicles comprise almost 80% of the market. Four in five new vehicles sold in Australia today are an SUV, ute, van or light truck. Drivers of SUVs and pick-ups should pay more to be on our roads. Here’s how to make the system fairer."
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theconversation.com/drivers-of
#cars #SUVs #roads #RoadDamage #harm #TrafficJams #congestion #Bellingen #SpacialJustice #pedestrians

kion546.com/news/2025/05/13/ne Reminder to people who bike on sidewalks in the Monterey County seat and its largest city, Salinas. Sidewalk riding is generally allowed in Salinas, except where signs give notice it is prohibited. But it must be done with due caution and reasonable speed, and the person biking must yield to pedestrians and give an audible signal before overtaking and passing. Learn more in our 90-second audio and related post, "BIKING ON SIDEWALKS, plus examples of ordinances from Monterey County, California” bikemonterey.org/biking-on-sid — also available in Spanish, "ANDAR EN BICICLETA EN LAS ACERAS además de ejemplos de ordenanzas del Condado de Monterey, California”: bikemonterey.org/andar-en-bici.

KION546 · New concerns comes as bike safety becomes an issue in SalinasSalinas residents are concerned about bike and pedestrian safety along various streets. May is National Bike Safety Month, and many in the community are speaking out about various pedestrian safety concerns around the city. 

834 #ClimateEmergency #Cities #Traffic #Pedestrians

It could be soo much better.
Just take care of the safety for everyone, not just the drivers.
Being worse than Europe won't surprise you, but the US is soo much worse than China or SE Asia.

"Why Do So Many More Pedestrians Die in America?" [10:29 min]
by SciShow

youtube.com/watch?v=pvUa7q6Bvb

Quote by SS:
"May 12, 2025
JMP offers a 30-day free trial for anyone, anywhere. Go to jmp.com/scishow to see the benefits of visual statistics for yourself.
A huge number of vehicular fatalities are people who aren't in cars at all. Pedestrians are dying more than they used to and more in America than other comparable parts of the world. Here's why.
Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them)

#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#StopThePlunder #StopRapingNature
#ClimateBreakDown

Extremely tight deadline for public response if you are in Thousand Oaks or Newbury Park to their Active Transportation Plan update. If you are a pedestrian or cyclist who is finding issues with the city, deadline is now 5/17/25 (yes, ONE day) to submit comments. Bad intersection? Missing/bad sidewalk? No way to get your wheelchair across a curb? Traffic too fast? Now is the time for input:

toaksatp.org/

www.toaksatp.orgCity of Thousand Oaks Active Transportation Plan UpdateOfficial updates for the Thousand Oaks Active Transportation Plan.

It seems to be tolerated that large machines mow down unarmoured human beings

"In the case of a crash, SUVs and LTVs cause more severe injuries to pedestrians and cyclists than passenger cars. This effect is larger for fatalities than for KSIs, and the fatality effect is particularly large for children... The Injury severity, defined either as ‘fatal versus non-fatal injury’ or as ‘killed or seriously injured (KSI) versus slight injury’. Pedestrians and cyclists are about 44% more likely to be killed when hit by an SUV or light truck (e.g. a van or big ute) compared to a passenger car."
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injuryprevention.bmj.com/conte

Stop the child murder/ Stop de Kindermoord
"The streets no longer belonged to the people who lived there, but to huge traffic flows... It took the intolerable toll of child traffic deaths – and fierce activism – to turn Amsterdam into the cycling nirvana of today."
theguardian.com/cities/2015/ma
#cars #roads #SUVs #LTVs #pedestrians #cyclists #children #ChildTrafficDeaths #wildlife #RoadTrauma #MobilityDesign #AI

Image: Bellingen cars conquer the few footpaths

Continued thread

P.S.: What's more, the #bike lane, already ridiculous in itself, is strewn with #detritus , #glass ,and other objects that can't be avoided, because there's simply no room. In addition, when #wind exceeds 80 km/h, which must happen quite frequently, the #SaintNazaire #bridge is closed to #cyclists and #pedestrians .Why are the authorities of the #PaysDeLaLoire Region putting #biking #tourists at risk, when it would be easy to avoid it by just removing one of the three #car lanes?

The #SaintNazaire bridge over the #Loire #river (4 km) is dangerous for any #cyclist ,because on the narrow cycle lane you get overtaken by trucks & cars that can't keep a sufficient distance. The #sidewalk for #pedestrians is too narrow, and the nearest #ferry too far away. There is a shuttle #bus for #cyclists ,but you have to book it 24 hours in advance - when all you need to do is remove one of the three (!) lanes for #cars .Avoid the area!

Road Death: The proliferation of larger vehicles ( SUVs or LTVs ) threatens to undermine all the road safety

“Around the world, we have seen a huge increase in the sale of ever-larger cars...Previous research has found that this trend is substantially undermining progress towards net zero goals."
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standard.co.uk/news/transport/
#cars #SUV #LTV #consumer #CarBloat #CarSpreading #RoadDeath #crashes #pedestrians #cyclists #children #ZeroRoadDeaths #violence #MobilityDesign

Evening Standard · 'Supersize' SUV cars much more likely to cause fatal injury to cyclists and pedestrians, say researchersBy Ross Lydall