Posts tagged Road Safety
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Breakfast links: Not an accident
Police won’t charge Swanson’s killer; Really not an accident; They need Leon; ZipSegwayCar?; Kauai residents repair road themselves; Vacant schools draw bids; Splitting comments should be fixed. Keep reading…
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Two cases where reporters, police don’t dismiss crashes
This morning’s Washington Post car crash story, the latest in a sadly regular chain, avoids the “man killed from striking fast-moving bullet” fallacy, the excessive passive voice, and the misleading use of the word “accident” that mar much traffic crash reporting. The story still doesn’t assign any criminal responsibility, since that’s… Keep reading…
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Excessive passive voice, linguistic detachment observed in Culpeper road fatality
No news story ever began saying, “A person was killed yesterday when he collided with a bullet moving at high speed in the opposite direction.” Yet that’s exactly how news stories about traffic “accidents” often begin, like this Post story: Keep reading…
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Carnage this week: Crosswalk sting edition
The recent post on speeding generated a lot of interesting comments, including this: Keep reading…
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Most people don’t speed. For some values of “speed.”
DC police officer David Baker thinks pedestrians aren’t paying enough attention, writes Michael Neibauer in the Examiner. They cross the street while listening to iPods or checking their Blackberries, contributing to crashes like those on Connecticut and Nebraska. He’s probably right that there are many pedestrians don’t pay attention. Keep reading…