Comment 63254

By Nord Blanc (anonymous) | Posted May 09, 2011 at 13:23:52

Cold as it reads, I’m guessing that it's an expository detail (such as BAC level, seatbelts or no, velocity, direction, vehicular conduct, right of way, signalling, regard for traffic signals etc), that is routinely factored into the narrative as germane to the resulting injuries or mortality.

eg.
http://www.thespec.com/news/canada/article/483346--three-people-die-in-head-on-collision-between-van-and-school-bus-near-montreal
http://www.mississauga.com/news/article/813036--no-charges-in-officer-s-death


But it's unclear whether a helmet would have averted this death.

By the same token, while I’m extremely sympathetic to the cause of humanizing our streets, I'm unconvinced that "engineering for safety" would have prevented this accident or others like it in the future.

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