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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What nonsense. Kids die in driveways all the time when their parents run over them, all much less than 10 mph. [/quote]

not nonsense.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2016/05/31/3-graphs-that-explain-why-20-mph-should-be-the-limit-on-city-streets/[/quote]

That data is for adults. Not 5 year olds. It isn’t relevant. [/quote]

here you go, have fun. speed and severity of injury are related for all ages.

https://nacto.org/docs/usdg/relationship_between_speed_risk_fatal_injury_pedestrians_and_car_occupants_richards.pdf

this is why there is a growing movement for 20mph speed limit. [/quote]

I fully support the 20 mph speed limit. They’ve recently dropped the limit on my residential DC street to 20 and cars are still flying by at 35 mph or faster, ignoring stop signs. Dropping the speed limit isn’t enough and I’d love some traffic calming as well, which I’ve said to DDOT and my ANC rep.

But I still don’t get what this has to do with the tragic accident yesterday evening. I don’t see that this report says that an accident when a car is traveling at a slow speed cannot be fatal. I see it saying that faster speeds are more likely to be fatal or result in serious injury. I don’t understand why you’re offering this to contradict the police report that says the driver stopped and then proceeded into the intersection.  I haven’t heard of any witness accounts that counter that report.

[b]I think this is so unthinkably awful, that people are looking for some one to blame - driver, parents, child, infrastructure. If someone did something wrong we can distance ourselves from it, it won’t happen to us because we won’t make that mistake.  But sometimes there really isn’t anyone to blame. This was just a fluke. A horrible, unimaginably awful fluke where this poor child and that van were at exactly the wrong place at the wrong time and it could have happened to any one of us. Which is even more terrifying. 
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This. We're so desperate to find fault here because it's so awful to imagine that this could happen to our family.[/quote]

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