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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Traffic fatalities spiked the year that cameras, and all the assorted other measures, went in but have since fallen back in line with the long term historical range.

That doesn't show what you think it shows.[/quote]

What "long term historical range" are you talking about?

If current trends continue, DC will record about 19 traffic fatalities in 2025.

You can view the 20 year traffic fatality trend here: https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/traffic-data

In the past 20 years, there is only year (2012) when DC recorded less than 20 traffic deaths. Most years are substantially higher than that. [/quote]

The numbers seem relatively stable until a big spike in '23 and '24.  That coincides with the massive increase in cameras and other measures which is ironic.[/quote]

If I had to guess, I would have expected more fender benders with the distracted braking hard when seeing the camera to be rear-ended by the following distracted driver. However, this is about traffic deaths, and rear-end accidents aren't deadly to pedestrians.

IMHO, pedestrians are really bad at judging speeds of approaching vehicles. Also, more slower, more road rage. [/quote]

Both accidents and deaths increased substantially after they implemented these measures.[/quote]

Not in DC. [/quote]

Yes, in DC. Most of the measures were proposed in 2022 and implemented in 2023 and 2024.[/quote]

Huh? All this stuff goes way further back than that. Per DDOT, the number of traffic tickets issued between 2014 and 2022 grew by a factor of four. It doubled again after that, but that was only the most recent doubling. [/quote]

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