The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009.

Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

nytimes.com/interactive/2026/0

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@davidho I think cell phone adoption is a bigger contributor (or, I should say, correlates more closely to pedestrian deaths than SUV and pickup truck sizes):

reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/c

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