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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bicyclists want you to call them "crashes" instead of "accidents" because they want you to believe that all accidents can be prevented by the government. If everyone believes that, then that creates a reason and puts pressure on the government to spend lots of money redesigning roads and doing other things the cyclist lobby wants. It also leads to programs like "Vision Zero." But, statistically, accidents are extremely rare, when you compare them to the billions of trips people make every day, which means they are by definition difficult to stop. Especially by a government that has enough trouble just figuring out how to get the streets plowed when it snows. We seem to recognize all this in other contexts. We don't have "Vision Zero" of no deaths by guys building skyscrapers and we don't change our terms to imply that every death by construction workers could have been prevented if only we tried harder.[/quote]

You really shouldn’t try to write English if you can’t understand it.

Also, peddling the notion that fatal crashes are “rare” in the US - which appears to be a pursuit to which you have dedicated your existence - is sick.

Have a look at the actual statistics, why don’t you?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate

The US- rate is approximately triple those of most other developed countries and on a par with many developing countries with very poor road infrastructure and little in the way of traffic enforcement.[/quote]

We stopped enforcing traffic laws to achieve equitable outcomes for all drivers. [/quote]

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