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The face of the pedestrian safety crisis looks a lot like Ignacio Duarte-Rodriguez. The 77-year old grandfather was struck in a hit-and-run crash while trying to cross a high-speed, six-lane road without crosswalks near his son’s home in Phoenix, Arizona. He was one of the more than 6,000 people killed while walking in America in 2018. In the last ten years, there has been a 50 percent increase in pedestrian deaths. The tragedy of traffic violence has barely registered with the media and wider culture. Disproportionately the victims are like Duarte-Rodriguez—immigrants, the poor, and people of color. They have largely been blamed and forgotten. In Right of Way, journalist Angie Schmitt shows us that deaths like Duarte-Rodriguez’s are not unavoidable “accidents.” They don’t happen because of jaywalking or distracted walking. They are predictable, occurring in stark geographic patterns that tell a story about systemic inequality. These deaths are the forgotten faces of an increasingly urgent public-health crisis that we have the tools, but not the will, to solve. Schmitt examines the possible causes of the increase in pedestrian deaths as well as programs and movements that are beginning to respond to the epidemic. Her investigation unveils why pedestrians are dying—and she demands action. Right of Way is a call to reframe the problem, acknowledge the role of racism and classism in the public response to these deaths, and energize advocacy around road safety. Ultimately, Schmitt argues that we need improvements in infrastructure and changes to policy to save lives. Right of Way unveils a crisis that is rooted in both inequality and the undeterred reign of the automobile in our cities. It challenges us to imagine and demand safer and more equitable cities, where no one is expendable.
Clear, accurate photographs and simple, straightforward text presents readers with the rules for being safe while walking.
Before picking up Pedestrian Safety Expert Gets Hit by Bus, be prepared to alternately laugh out loud, recoil in horror, and be dumbfounded as page after page of ludicrous and unfathomable, but 100 percent true, tales unfold. The follow-up to the successful Another Weird Year, Pedestrian Safety Expert Gets Hit by Bus is a brand-new collection of bizarre, strange, and outrageous news stories that are so crazy they couldn't be made up! Consider this: A South African woman has difficulty finding one of her favorite foods since moving to another part of the country. Her food of choice? A cup of red sand, which she describes as tasting like cocoa.From crazy animals and blundering criminals to acts of love and plain human error, Pedestrian Safety Expert Gets Hit by Bus is the perfect comic roundup of the year. This trove of truisms offers wacky and weird happenings of everyday people-giving the rest of us a huge sense of relief that there are plenty of people out there who make a mess of things far worse than what we could ever do!
Report on the activities of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Federal Highway Administration under the Highway Safety Act of 1966.