Excerpt from article:
“We all play a role in keeping our roads safe and Crime Stoppers Victoria is offering vulnerable pedestrians the tools they need to use our roads safely,” she [Crime Stoppers Victoria Chief Executive Stella Smith] said.
“We have seen 175 pedestrians killed on our roads over the last five years, and a significant number of those have been in 60 km/h zones.
“We hope with more education and awareness we can reduce the number of injuries and most importantly, deaths on our roads.”
As part of the campaign, Crime Stoppers Victoria will hit the streets to actively engage with high-risk pedestrians to educate them on how they can help keep our roads incident-free.
I guess that means police will be out in force handing out fines to pedestrians and cyclists. “Job done!”
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It is possible that a few of these were in fact “glued to their phones” but the majority are from speeding and/or distracted driving. Because regardless of how distracted or badly you are behaving on the road as a pedestrian or cyclist, about the only way you are going to die is if a car runs you over.
And unless the car is being controlled by a psychopath, that pretty much implies failure to control speed or failure to see the other person on the road rather than being young, old or intoxicated while walking/biking. (OK, intoxicated while biking is a crime, this is true.)
Meaning the real issues are more likely:
Basically all the Strong Towns stuff as usual.
I agree with your dotpoints and their implementation would go a long way to reducing deaths and trauma.
I also think cyclists and pedestrians have a responsibility to make themselves visible, be predictable and follow the same road rules when on the road.