hoping this catches on, pretty please CA…

i like the fact that the money can only go into maintaining the speed cameras or into making the road safer. those are both things desperately needed, especially in LA.

  • In 2021, there were 6,100 fatal crashes with a pedestrian, of 120,000 total crashes that resulted in injury or fatality. This is a fatality rate of arout 5%. Rear end crashes had 2900 fatal crashes out of ~3.3 million that resulted in injury or fatality. This is a fatality rate of around 0.08%.

    https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/overview/type-of-crash/

    This heavily implies that crashes involving pedestrians are far more dangerous than rear-endings, as common sense would suggest.

    So I would definitely exchange one pedestrian incident for several rear endings, as the potential harm is less for each rear-ending than for each pedestrian strike.