Traffic collisions in the city of Los Angeles killed 290 people last year, and more than 150 fatal collisions involved pedestrians, according to Los Angeles Police Department data. It’s also 60 more people than died by homicide last year.
That means the city is far from the goal it set more than a decade ago of reaching zero such deaths by 2025.
Is it ? Using that logic, a drunk driver killing somone is an accident.
The continued city design of enshrining cars as the primary mode of transport is intentional, people voting for politcans who are car brained is intentional, driving a car knowing there is a not insignificant risk of killing or hurting somone is intentional. Knowing this, a traffic death is really just manslaughter
Back in the 70s the Dutch rioted to remove cars from streets becase they were “accidentally” killing children, that’s the appropriate response to deaths of chikdren.
I hear you. Are the people at fault? Most definitely. Did they have the intent to kill? Mostly no; most people don’t think of consequences at all.
I was comparing to murder though. Something where you are intentionally try to hurt someone