TIL #AccidentNotCrash was an auto industry PR blitz #CrashNotAccident #VisionZero #BanCars @activetowns How corporate disinformation harms our health and the environment

https://youtu.be/dP41Hsr4fMA?t=1593

Today, we are heartbroken to post yet another sign for yet another pedestrian death.

We grieve the lives lost so senselessly on our streets & are here to support.

📩 Email City leaders to fix deadly intersections NOW at https://walksf.org/neveragain

#neveragain #safestreetsforall #visionzeroSF #crashnotaccident #20isplenty

@BrentToderian This is 2/3 of the way to being a great graphic.

But it falls apart on that last 1/3 by using the debunked "95% of crashes (#CrashNotAccident) are caused by human error" figure. Debunked because crashes arise from a wide range of interdependent factors, including but extending well beyond the actions of any single human.

They really should have just made it a 2-panel graphic.

A very good (and depressing) piece by @wisconsinwatch on #Wisconsin 's terrible drinking culture. It mostly covers alcohol-induced deaths that occur directly. https://wisconsinwatch.org/2023/08/wisconsins-death-grip-with-alcohol-is-killing-more-residents/

Of course then there's also the scourge of drunk driving, which in Madison (and presumably elsewhere in the state) contributes to a huge proportion of fatal and serious injury traffic crashes. #VisionZero #DrunkDriving #CrashNotAccident

"On June 13, #ProPublica and #FRONTLINE detailed the industry’s fight against a different, heavier side guard — one designed to prevent cars and other passenger vehicles from getting wedged beneath large commercial trucks during roadway collisions." #crashNotAccident #visionzero #warOnCars #trucking

https://www.propublica.org/article/dot-rejected-truck-side-guards-trucking-lobbyists-safety

Spate of crashes involving the operation of #logTrucks around the country this July:

#FLORIDA: Logs come unsecured, killing woman after she impacted the truck with a car: https://www.wsfa.com/2023/07/19/woman-dies-after-logs-fall-onto-her-car-following-crash-authorities-say/

#IDAHO: "Equipment failure" & "negotiating a corner" said to cause "accident" https://www.bigcountrynewsconnection.com/idaho/equipment-failure-caused-logging-trailer-accident-on-grangemont-road-monday/article_ea0583da-25b0-11ee-b0a0-9bf533123978.html

#OREGON, on #OregonCoastBikeRoute (#Hwy101): empty log truck, in operation by a man from Newport, "contacted" a cyclist for "unknown reasons": https://www.thenewsguard.com/news/fatal-crash-bicycle-rider-killed-on-highway-101/article_3f586f7e-1e85-11ee-82a1-3ffaead949af.html

#LoggingTrucks #crashNotAccident

So far my main disappointment with #CitiesSkylines2 isn't the lack of bicycles. It's that they keep writing & saying traffic accidents. Traffic crashes is the wording to use. Words matter. If we wanna address traffic violence and the thousand upon thousands who die from car crashes every year?
#CrashNotAccident.

A driver of a car, after first stopping, pulled out in front of person operating a motorcycle, killing that person in the crash.

Actor Treat Williams was operating the motorcycle.

#RipTreatWillians #TreatWilliams #CrashNotAccident

A driver of a car, after first stopping, pulled out in front of person operating a motorcycle, killing that person in the crash.

Actor Treat Williams was operating the motorcycle.

#RipTreatWillians #TreatWilliams #CrashNotAccident

#WarOnCars I spent the whole Queer Eye episodes yelling at the screen; 'IT WAS CRASH NOT AN ACCIDENT!'

The kid lost his family and is left in a wheelchair because of a Ford150. Car Culture seems to be Queer Eye's one blind spot. At least they are driving a slightly smaller SUV this season. #CrashNotAccident

@ProPublica
Please use #CrashNotAccident.

These things are not accidents. They are entirely preventable. Calling them "accidents" gives those who could prevent them--and fail--and easy out.

These things are not accidents. They are results.

@tomflood

Utfordring for skisport 1: Stadig kortere og dårligere sesong.

Utfordring for skisport 2: De stedene som faktisk har OK skiføre blir konfliktområder.

Den historien her får også en #CrashNotAccident: Det kan fint omtales som en kollisjon i stedet for å bagatelliseres som et uhell.

https://www.ao.no/hildegunn-70-fikk-kjeft-da-hun-brakk-ribbeina-i-skiloypa-det-har-snudd-livet-mitt-opp-ned/s/5-128-497369

A notable effort at #TTDC23 to say #crashnotaccident and I'm really appreciating it.

Big #crashNotAccident news in Oregon, introduced by a Republican even.
https://bikeportland.org/2023/02/28/bill-would-replace-accident-with-crash-in-oregon-laws-370838

📣 Tomorrow, Supervisor @deanpreston will intro a resolution on interagency coordination, speeds, & lagging progress on the City’s #VisionZeroSF strategy.

We want the Board to pass it unanimously.

So today, take 1 MINUTE for safe streets to email your Supervisor at walksf.org/safestreetsnow.

#SafeStreetsforAll #SlowOurStreets #CrashNotAccident
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Hm, sounds familiar. 🤔

#SafeStreets #CrashNotAccident

https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-dairy-farm-jefferson-rodriguez

@radleybalko both forgot to mention the traffic Engineers who caused these deaths #crashNotAccident

Today would be another great day for federal regulators to start talking about the roles vehicle size, weight, and design play in the 40,000+ fatalities on US roadways every year.

#TrafficViolence #VisionZero #RoadSafety #Regulation #Traffic #CrashNotAccident #SafeStreetsForAll

@tomflood Wow. We can make it safe for #KidsBikingToSchool . . . but we choose not to. #BikeInfrastructure #roadviolence #CrashNotAccident

@skinnylatte #CrashNotAccident