What is ‘Traffic Violence’ and Why Do We Need To Talk About It?

Streetsblog
May 3, 2021, 12:01 am555 ptsHot
Every once and a while, Streetsblog USA will get a tweet like this from a reader: Can we please stop calling it traffic violence? Sure, cars are sometimes used to commit violence; but violence is intentional, whereas the vast majority of traffic injuries are accidental (avoidable though they may be at either…

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