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Parking lots & car violence stats

2026-06-25 18:25:42.171087+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Hat tip to Sean for forwarding on David Zipper @davidzipper@mastodon.social's gift link to his article Bloomberg City Lab: America’s Road Safety Blind Spot

Car crashes in parking lots and driveways don’t get counted in US traffic safety statistics. They may be more common — and deadly — than you think.

So, yeah, we force people to build these spaces via parking minimums, and then don't count their contribution to traffic violence... hmmm....

The article links to Kids and Car Safety's statement that:

Every week, at least 110 children are injured or killed because a driver could not see them while backing up or slowly pulling forward in parking lots and driveways. These predictable and preventable tragedies are called frontovers and backovers.

And The AAA suggesting that "Twenty percent of all collisions occur in parking lots..."

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