• ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml
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    In 2022, of all pedestrian fatalities where the striking vehicle body type was known, approximately 40% involved a passenger car as the striking vehicle, while 30% involved an SUV and 18% involved a pickup (Table 9)

    Vehicle Type Count Percent
    Passenger Cars 2,591 39.66%
    SUVs 1,912 29.27%
    Pickups 1,188 18.18%
    Large Trucks 469 7.18%
    Vans 288 4.41%
    Motorcycles 42 0.64%
    Buses 42 0.64%

    From page 25 of that pdf.

    Which, if you then wanted to combine it with vehicle miles traveled from something like this, you’d get:

    Vehicle Type Vehicles distance Traveled (millions of miles) Pedestrian Fatalities Fatalities per billion miles driven
    Passenger Cars, SUVs, Pickups, Vans 2,822,664 5,985 2.120
    Buses 18,490 42 2.2715
    Motorcycles 23,765 42 1.767

    If you find a source that breaks down vehicle miles traveled by specific vehicle type let me know, otherwise this is probably the best you’re going to get.

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      combine it with vehicle miles traveled from something like thi

      That link is average miles driven per vehicle…

      You’re skipping the amount of vehicles that drive those average miles…

      Like, your formatted it nicely, but the math doesn’t make any sense at all.

      You took the average miles traveled, total pedestrian fatalities, and then claimed that answer meant anything at all?

      Like, A for effort, but you didnt accomplish anything that means anything…

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        I see my mistake now, those are millions of vehicle miles driven. But they’re definitely not average miles driven per vehicle like you’re assuming.

        I took the total urban and rural miles traveled and matched them up to the pedestrian fatalities of the corresponding vehicle types. The vehicle miles traveled data doesn’t break the vehicles down into smaller categories like the pedestrian fatality data does.

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          Wait…

          So you think the effort into that peer reviewed research paper took more effort than just looking at two PDFs and finding the rate between two sets of numbers?!

          Crazy man.

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            What are you talking about? When did I ever say publishing a paper was easy? You asked for someone to provide updated studies compared to the 20 year old one you linked. It’s certainly not perfect, but now you have some more up to date numbers to look at.

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              No, you took two numbers you didn’t understand and declared that as in depth as the study…

              The only numbers I’d trust you to calculate is the number of motorcycles you own, but I wouldn’t trust you to report that accurately here.

              Have fun tho, that’s apparently what matters, not dead children

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                I was pretty transparent with what I was doing and never claimed to be as thorough as a proper study would be. But 20 years is a very long time, you can’t assume the numbers from back then are still accurate to today’s world.

                I don’t own a motorcycle.

                If you care about dead children, maybe you should care a little more about the 6,000 killed by cars, trucks and SUVs rather than the 42 killed by motorcycles. Why are you on this crusade against motorcycles in the first place? It seems weird and unnecessarily hostile. (Edit: the 6,000 and 42 are all pedestrians killed, I don’t know how many of those are children)