• primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus
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        8 hours ago

        Right! I just had a little oopsie while looking at my phone wondering if I should text that cutie who gave me their number at the bar–don’t get too upset about all the blood and body parts. I’ll clean those off my car tomorrow.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      18 hours ago

      I mean, they are pretty rarely on purpose.

      The data for accidental transit deaths is probably even lower.

      • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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        18 hours ago

        I don’t know, they did write the song “Dumb Ways To Die” to prevent transit accidents.

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          18 hours ago

          Ah yes, what a masterpiece of a campaign. Although other Canadians I’ve shown it to seem horrified.

          I don’t know what order of magnitude they’re on exactly - they do clearly happen. But, it takes relatively more effort to get run over by a train than a car whizzing by a sidewalk driven by literally whoever.

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            18 hours ago

            It’s the homeless outside the trains I worry about. The only train fatality I have direct experience with was a homeless person “taking a shortcut” across a railroad bridge

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        18 hours ago

        The graph shows deaths. I’m sure there are quite a few more collisions that don’t end in death, but possibly severe and lasting disabilities. You don’t see a lot of subway cars colliding with other subway cars. I’m sure plenty of people run into buses though.

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          18 hours ago

          Yeah, bus collisions tend to have a pretty low fatality rate as well. It seems more like OP just didn’t read the graph.

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            16 hours ago

            No, he’s just saying deaths are big, but even bigger disparity is seen if you include non-fatal incidents.