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Jalopnik has a story about how the Norwegian capital, Oslo, recorded only one death on its roads in 2019.
Speed limit laws and reducing the very presence of cars in the city center and downtown areas have resulted in a very aggressive, downward trend of traffic-related fatalities in the Nordic country's capital city. There was only one traffic-related death in Oslo in all of 2019.
No children were killed in traffic in Norway last year, Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten reported.
There was only one road-related death of a pedestrian, cyclist or child in 2019 in Oslo. No children were killed in traffic in Norway last year, either.
Norway plans to reach "Vision Zero", and eliminate road-related deaths within four years and do more to reduce, and ultimately eliminate, serious injuries.
The only person who died last year, according to Aftenposten, was a man whose car crashed into a fence in June.
This sharp decline is due to the fact that Oslo heavily regulates places where people are allowed to drive and has set strict speed limits. The city is also very friendly towards cycling and walking.
Olso's road fatality rate for 2019 was 0.1 death per 100,000 people. American States vary between 12 and 26 per 100,000 people
(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Tuesday January 14 2020, @11:31PM (2 children)
I recall talking with a Norwegian couple years ago that got special permission to have two cars in a household. Married doctors and they both could get called.
So apparently it isn't entirely optional. Be interesting to hear from someone with more direct/current knowledge of how things play there.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 14 2020, @11:34PM (1 child)
It's also likely something that's not an issue for most people over there. It's only recently that families having more than one car was an expectation. And, if you live somewhere with functioning mass transit, you probably don't need more than one car anyways. The main thing that a typical family needs a car for on a regular basis is groceries and traveling where mass transit isn't convenient. Neither of those particularly require a second car or even a first car if mass transit is functioning well.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 15 2020, @04:17AM
I spent the first 30 years of my life in a place like this - where most did not have cars - called Soviet Union. Let me tell you this. Whoever did have a car could fuck any girl he wanted.