• lnxtx@feddit.nl
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    21 hours ago

    Is it possible to cause a car fatal accident (for driver and/or passengers) in densely populated Manhattan? Scary.

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      15 hours ago

      More vehicle malfunction and backing up deaths than elsewhere in the country, there’s some highways that run through it and then of course alcohol and other intoxicants.

      8600 of the 100,508 car accidents in NYC involved a pedestrian in 2022. These accidents resulted in 8484 injuries and 116 deaths. (Forbes)

      It’s crazy how dangerous these things are. NYC is big and it looks like in Manhattan it is a little rarer but 100K accidents in a year that were reported is bonkers.

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        Jesus Christ I was just comparing NY to London for the same stats. Over 4x fewer accidents (23,000 per year) in London despite the same population

        That’s some seriously, seriously shitty driving when you consider Londoners are by far the worst drivers in the UK

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      19 hours ago

      If your country’s driving test basically involves pulling up to a fast-food drive thru and berating the minimum wage workers for forgetting your mayo, it’s definitely possible

  • PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    The subway system had 1.15 billion paid rides in 2023. 12 deaths across five years is 2.4 deaths a year, so roughly 2.5 deaths per billion rides. But noooo, everyone gotta be scared of the subway system because they saw a few more homeless people on it than before COVID.