The fact that any children are ever killed by cars is a travesty and most individual people straight up shouldn’t be allowed to own cars and they shouldn’t be allowed most places. But this stat is just “More kids get hit by cars when kids are walking in the streets”
this is more of a practical cautionary reminder for living in than like, new surprising findings. but because it's kids, who are just out doing a valued holiday tradition, it is particularly galling and hopefully serves to break through the "well thats just how it is" mindset we've developed around traffic killings
Most shark attacks happen in shallow water
The fact that any children are ever killed by cars is a travesty and most individual people straight up shouldn’t be allowed to own cars and they shouldn’t be allowed most places. But this stat is just “More kids get hit by cars when kids are walking in the streets”
this is more of a practical cautionary reminder for living in
than like, new surprising findings. but because it's kids, who are just out doing a valued holiday tradition, it is particularly galling and hopefully serves to break through the "well thats just how it is" mindset we've developed around traffic killings