In which some bozo was doing 65kph in a 50kph zone and plowed through a red light that was red for 23 seconds at the point of impact where he killed an 11 year old girl that was crossing it
He got off with 9 months prison suspended and a 6 months driving ban as he argued “the red light was green in his imagination”
motherfucker if that was the case you should be banned from riding a bicycle, too. The fact that this keeps happening and none of the aggrieved parents ever just fucking whack any of thse psychopaths should be considered an enduring miracle by the church
One of the earliest points of my eventual radicalization was when, as a kid, I realized that like 40k people die in car crashes annually in the US and…we don’t really do much about it? New cars are made safer in certain ways but you’re still driving a box at speeds far faster than people were ever intended to go from an evolutionary standpoint, and you’re dependent upon people around you also making the correct decisions at the correct times.
Why not just get more public transit, particularly rail based systems which don’t need nearly as much snap judgement?
Then I learned about how the rail industry, both heavy and light, in a lot of the US got dismantled by auto companies buying it up