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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 15 2020, @04:14PM (1 child)
You just took a bunch of deaths with no clear cause injury/fall/poisoning, why not add old age in there. The point is cars are a clear preventable cause of death. If you incentivize other safer modes of transport car deaths go down, as in Norway.
Your food choices are just that, CHOICES. While driving in USA is an inevitability. It is forced upon you by the infrastructure. You have the freedom to drive or die.
https://www.faithpot.com/fedex-worker-car-surprise/ [faithpot.com]
EV's are not going to drastically solve any of the problems associated with car ownership, and they'll probably just create new ones. It's not an all or nothing though. Norway did not destroy all their motor vehicles/roads, as there are clear useful use cases. It just seems like forcing the whole population to use them is bad policy. Those 30 mile trips you mention would be non-existent if the infrastructure wasn't car centric.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday January 16 2020, @08:01PM