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BTW: there is similar (open) data for Germany: https://unfallatlas.statistikportal.de/ (It clearly shows the problem I mentioned)
Update: sorry, it seems that this issue is already discussed in this thread
The question is if the highlighted area are really more dangerous or if there are just more visitors. Shouldn't one take into account the traffic counts? BTW: there is similar (open) data for Germany: https://unfallatlas.statistikportal.de/ (It clearly shows the problem I mentioned) Update: sorry, it seems that this issue is already discussed in this thread
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Fatalities are a tiny minority of crashes and aren't really interesting to study because usually you basically wind up studying the behavior of drunk people and people who don't wear seat-belts and if you filter those out there's not much data left making meaningful conclusions hard to draw. Fatal accidents are often just normal accidents with a couple aggravating variables on top (e.g. person rear ends semi-truck in…
Drunk drivers and people that don't wear seat belts are still worth reviewing. While there are rarely engineering solutions to the fatalities that result, it can help inform education programs and initiatives. Amazingly, buckle-up and don't drive drunk advertising can make a difference.
I then moved to Texas where it was still just a ‘naughty boy’ type social offense until a major campaign that is still underway changed minds and hearts about it.
I’d like to see he stats in 10 years because it has been anecdotally very successful.
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Fatalities are a tiny minority of crashes and aren't really interesting to study because usually you basically wind up studying the behavior of drunk people and people who don't wear seat-belts and if you filter those out there's not much data left making meaningful conclusions hard to draw. Fatal accidents are often just normal accidents with a couple aggravating variables on top (e.g. person rear ends semi-truck in…
Drunk drivers and people that don't wear seat belts are still worth reviewing. While there are rarely engineering solutions to the fatalities that result, it can help inform education programs and initiatives. Amazingly, buckle-up and don't drive drunk advertising can make a difference.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Drunk drivers and people that don't wear seat belts are still worth reviewing. While there are rarely engineering solutions to the fatalities that result, it can help inform education programs and initiatives. Amazingly, buckle-up and don't drive drunk advertising can make a difference.
They absolutely are, but are rare enough that it's difficult to reach statistical significance when talking in the aggregate. That a particular part of town went from one fatality one year to zero fatalities the next year is probably not evidence of the success of any particular safety-related policy intervention, it's just noise. Studying all crashes provides a proxy that hopefully helps decrease the odds that the f…
https://xkcd.com/1138/
There is still a value to looking at a population-correlated heatmap in order to draw conclusions from the discrepancies between the two.
Non-fatal accidents clearly clustered around high traffic areas, but fatal accidents didn’t reveal the same clustering. Instead they appeared to be uniformly distributed across the city.
I’m sure there is an explanation in this, and this was only 10 years data for a single city, but it always felt a little spooky that these accidents were equally likely to happen anywhere (though most likely later in the night).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_New_York_City_truck_attac...