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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I can't understand is how, if the driver stopped before the crosswalk and accelerated safely from a stop, his vehicle gained enough speed between where he stopped and the crosswalk to kill a five year-old. Studies show that most pedestrians have a very good chance of surviving being hit by a vehicle going 25 mph. The vehicle can't have travelled more than a few feet before reaching the crosswalk and so, with a normal acceleration, should have been traveling considerably less than 25 mph. With the few facts we have to go on, the accident doesn't make a lot of sense.[/quote]

https://smartgrowthamerica.org/bigger-vehicles-are-directly-resulting-in-more-deaths-of-people-walking/[/quote]

Useful reference. This is interesting:

[quote]One important bit of fine print is that the data behind this graphic (and almost all the other versions you see all over the internet) are sourced from a 1995 European study that predates the significant shift of the vehicle fleet (and increase in size) of the last two decades. This means that, today, it could be that the likelihood of surviving crashes with an “average” vehicle in the US—at all speed levels—could be even worse than the graphic shows, because the “average” vehicle is so much larger today—and getting bigger. [/quote]

20 is indeed plenty.[/quote]

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