this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2024
238 points (92.5% liked)

Fuck Cars

9625 readers
537 users here now

A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!

Rules

1. Be CivilYou may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.

2. No hate speechDon't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.

3. Don't harass peopleDon't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures.

4. Stay on topicThis community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.

5. No repostsDo not repost content that has already been posted in this community.

Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.

Posting Guidelines

In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:

Recommended communities:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
ConfidentLonely@lemmy.world
Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world
toaster@slrpnk.net
238
Anti-20mph group refuses to back down despite big drop in casualty numbers (nation.cymru)
submitted 3 months ago by jerkface@lemmy.ca to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
62 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/38852281

Figures published by the Welsh Government show casualty reductions as follows for the period January to March 2024, in comparison with January to March 2023:

All severities at all speeds: 811 (2024); 4348 (2023);

20mph. All severities: 300 (2024); 662 (2023)

Killed or seriously injured: 63 (2024); 144 (2023)

Slightly injured: 237 (2024); 518 (2023)

30mph. All severities: 77 (2024); 1522 (2023)

Killed or seriously injured: 15 (2024); 343 (2023)

Slightly injured: 62 (2024); 1179 (2023)

40mph. All severities: 74 (2024); 397 (2023)

Killed or seriously injured: 20 (2024); 98 (2023)

Slightly injured: 54 (2024); 299 (2023)

50mph. All severities: 94 (2024); 273 (2023)

Killed or seriously injured: 23 (2024); 67 (2023)

Slightly injured: 71(2024); 206 (2023)

60mph. All severities: 214 (2024); 1235 (2023)

Killed or seriously injured: 71 (2024); 401 (2023)

Slightly injured: 143 (2024); 834 (2023)

70mph. All severities: 52 (2024); 259 (2023)

Killed or seriously injured: 12 (2024); 73 (2023)

Slightly injured: 40 (2024); 186 (2023)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If it were the United States it would be to funnel more money to police departments via higher tickets.

A person who speeds in a 30mph zone isn't going to stop speeding when the limit is lowered to 20; the ticket will just be more expensive.

[–] Naich@lemmings.world 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They could always just not break the law. A radical solution, I know...

[–] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That would be nice. Of course, the law would have to be made with safety in mind, and not money-grubbing.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Isn't that the exact case for these 20mph zones? To make the streets safer.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Why does ticket revenue go to police departments?! That's pretty fucked up.