Ah yes, what a masterpiece of a campaign. Although other Canadians I’ve shown it to seem horrified.
I don’t know what order of magnitude they’re on exactly - they do clearly happen. But, it takes relatively more effort to get run over by a train than a car whizzing by a sidewalk driven by literally whoever.
It’s the homeless outside the trains I worry about. The only train fatality I have direct experience with was a homeless person “taking a shortcut” across a railroad bridge
It depends on what you mean by “on purpose.” You didn’t mean to hit that light pole, but there was a lot of intentionality around the decision to drive and the decision to build a car-based society that is very much “on purpose” and the effect of that is deaths due to cars.
I mean, they are pretty rarely on purpose.
The data for accidental transit deaths is probably even lower.
I don’t know, they did write the song “Dumb Ways To Die” to prevent transit accidents.
Ah yes, what a masterpiece of a campaign. Although other Canadians I’ve shown it to seem horrified.
I don’t know what order of magnitude they’re on exactly - they do clearly happen. But, it takes relatively more effort to get run over by a train than a car whizzing by a sidewalk driven by literally whoever.
It’s the homeless outside the trains I worry about. The only train fatality I have direct experience with was a homeless person “taking a shortcut” across a railroad bridge
It depends on what you mean by “on purpose.” You didn’t mean to hit that light pole, but there was a lot of intentionality around the decision to drive and the decision to build a car-based society that is very much “on purpose” and the effect of that is deaths due to cars.
I mean with malice aforethought by a particular person. Foreseeable or unnecessary accidents are still accidents.