Both vehicles involved are the type that make it impossible to see kids standing 10 feet away. These should he banned unless a second person is spotting, like what you’d do around construction vehicles.
A 9-year-old girl is dead after being hit by a truck…
The driver of the pickup was not injured in the collision.
😒
You forgot:
The truck was not damaged by the unprovoked child ambush
Now there’s peak carbrain, just phrase it as insanely as when cops shoot a completely innocent person for no reason.
jfc like anybody asked, why even include that
I see it in every article when a pedestrian or cyclist is killed, as if there was a chance the driver would be even mildly injured. Or that anyone would care, seeing how they killed someone else.
It’s infuriating.
Because property has more rights than people in a hypercapitalist hellworld.
I don’t want to ban pick up trucks.
Instead, put 15km/h (10mph) speed limits in residential areas, 40km/h (25mph) speed limits on arterial roads, and an 105km/h (65mph) electronic highway speed limiter, exclusively for vehicles with bonnet height above 40" or 1m. That will mitigate the danger these vehicles have on our roads.
Vehicle-specific speed limits are long overdue. Even having 2 or 3 categories would go a long way.
I would absolutely love for that
Yes it would fuck up traffic. and people would change their vehicle choice as a result
Height limits for the front grille as well. So many trucks are up to my neck. It’s ridiculous.
I drive a little roadster and those trucks are especially terrifying for me. I know they can’t fucking see me at all when I’m driving next to them on the right.
don’t forget to give these drivers the finger and flash your high beams at them when they drive towards you at night!
so sick of getting blinded by headlights, flashing somebody, and then they flash their “high beams” back but it’s almost impossible to tell the difference
I do want to point out that while aiming and headlight height are a factor that makes it worse, it’s the sheer brightness in the first place that’s the main issue with headlights
Enforcement, or the need for constant traffic surveillance, has already been raised as a problem with this approach. People tend to drive as fast as they feel safe on most streets, with the occasional unaware jerk screwing everything up. The threat of a possible ticket doesn’t really work, or else we wouldn’t have these problems in the first place.
A better approach is re-engineering streets for traffic calming. Basically threaten drivers with breaking or damaging their vehicle if they try too drive fast and/or in a straight line. Way more effective.
I agree, but I living in Toronto I found that people wanted to go 20-30% above the limit, so when it was 60 drivers would go 75-80, now it’s 50 so they go 60-65.
The vehicle didn’t hit them. A person driving the vehicle did. Stop with this regurgitation of passive police reports.
No, actually please stop with regurgitating weird language constructs.
Everybody knows that a car doesn’t drive itself (STFU Tesla fanboys, it doesn’t) and that a driver is responsible.
That, and yes, a vehicle DID hit them. It’s not like the driver stopped, got out and beat the shit out of the toddler, his car, driven by him (doh) hit the toddler and killed her.
No, its still passive voicing that intermediates between the actor and the act.
The vehicle struck the child
vs
The driver struck the child
is analgous to
The bullet struck the child
vs
The cop shot the child
EDIT:
With the active phrasing… you can just append a following clause to give more detail, and it flows naturally.
The driver struck the child [with the truck] , [unaware of their presence].
The cop shot the child [unintentionally] / [with their service pistol], [while pursuing a suspect].
These kinds of statements are active voiced, and also more fact/detail content heavy.
It is entirely possible to use active voicing and also be precise… you’re bending over backwards with your hyperbolic example.
The whole point of using passive voicing is that it works on the reader at a subconscious or subliminal level.
Yes, ‘everybody knows’ that a car doesn’t drive itself, but phrasing and vocabulary have always been key elements of propaganda, because only more literate, more critically analytic readers realize what is happening in a more conscious way.
what a waste of time
Is what your parents said after they had sex to conceive you
smooth, not contrived at all
Read the room, Asshole, what the fuck is wrong with you?
What are you talking about?
