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"Big #trucks and #SUVs can be deadly. #Vehicles with extra-tall hoods and blunt front ends are more likely to cause #fatalities ... As Americans flocked to these dangerously tall and heavy vehicles, the #pedestrian death rate soared: between 2013 and 2022, pedestrian fatalities increased 57 percent"

"Few trends have been more damaging to the #environment and #PublicSafety than the dramatic growth in the SUV and truck market in recent decades."

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The Verge · How big trucks and SUVs gobbled up the entire auto industryBy Andrew J. Hawkins

What do youse think about the #Graduated #DrivingLicence ? I keep seeing calls for this in #Britain - usually from bereaved #parents who have lost #teenage / #YoungAdult offspring in road traffic #collisions

I'm conflicted about the concept (and govt has 0 plans to introduce it) -it would make things difficult for both young #UK
citizens and new UK arrivals in #Health and #SocialCare who often have to drive at night/with passengers, and enforcement would require a lot of resources / #surveillance

Might as well just deploy more Roads Policing and neighbourhood officers to enforce existing laws - in my youth there was often a bobby around who would have words with the leadfooted and/or those who don't correctly maintain their #vehicles which did act as some deterrent.. #RoadSafety