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posted by janrinok on Tuesday January 14 2020, @10:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the splat-no-more dept.

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

Original Norwegian article.


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  • (Score: 2) by Username on Wednesday January 15 2020, @01:36AM (2 children)

    by Username (4557) on Wednesday January 15 2020, @01:36AM (#943389)

    My beef was the statistic they were quoting.

    road-related death of a pedestrian, cyclist or child

    Those three nouns at the end. Maybe they don't keep track of vehicular deaths in general, but that seems oddly specific.

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  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday January 15 2020, @04:38AM

    by MostCynical (2589) on Wednesday January 15 2020, @04:38AM (#943453) Journal

    Let's rephrase it, then: "of the most vulnerable road users"

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 15 2020, @05:24AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 15 2020, @05:24AM (#943470)

    In the actual article and numbers, it makes clear that is a combined statistic. Norway tracks the deaths of cyclists, drivers, passengers, "sledgers" (I can't read the definition in the official language), motorcyclists, and pedestrians according to sex and age, and a few other factors. According to the unofficial counts, there were no minors killed involving a vehicle of any type the entire year and only a handful were injured. In Oslo specifically, no pedestrians or cyclists of any type (in addition to most other groups) were killed in addition to the no-child-deaths statistic.