1. La Normalización de la Violencia Vial.
La discusión se centra en rechazar el término "accidente" para describir las colisiones de tráfico, reconociéndolas como actos de violencia tolerada y normalizada que resultan de decisiones deliberadas. Se subraya que la sociedad ha aceptado un nivel inaceptable de muertes y lesiones causadas por vehículos.
- We must reject the language of accidents and recognize that traffic violence is the result of deliberate choices.
- Car accidents should be called car violence my anti-car position clicked into place. How we think about things matters.
- We have become so used to driver violence enacted with a car its almost a sure fire way to killmaim someone and get away with minimal to no consequences.
- The most striking part is how normalised the violence is for the witnesses and even the girl herself dusted herself off and got on with it.
- The dam is breaking. The worlds leading public health news organization is now reporting us driver violence as a public health crisis.
2. Fallas Sistémicas y Diseño de Calles.
Se critica fuertemente la infraestructura y las políticas que priorizan la velocidad y la conveniencia del conductor sobre la seguridad, señalando que la violencia vial es una "elección política" y un síntoma de regulaciones deficientes. El diseño de las carreteras es visto como un factor determinante en la tasa de víctimas.
- Traffic violence is a policy choice. We can choose a better path. 66.
- Cars may be the weapons that administer the fatal violence, but road design dictates the rate of casualties.
- We designed for road violence. We got road violence.
- Traffic violence is a symptom of the disease of poor land use regulations.
- We need safer streets now so this doesnt happen again. Fuck drivers convenience and their flow of traffic. Safety of people outside of cars is more important.
3. Consecuencias Legales y Cobertura Mediática.
Existe una frustración generalizada por la falta de consecuencias legales para los conductores violentos y la tendencia de los medios a minimizar la gravedad de los incidentes, a menudo culpando a las víctimas. Se exige que los delitos vehiculares sean tratados con la misma seriedad que otros crímenes violentos.
- Media will spin this as an accident and the driver will face little to no consequences. Vehicular violence is extremely tolerated.
- We need to reform vehicular homicide laws the penalties should be the same as murder. Stop treatings victims of traffic violence as somehow lesser.
- I cant help but think about how this would be covered if this person used a gun instead of a car. Aside from the vehicle ramming attacks that do get major coverage, acts of traffic violence like this rarely do.
- Another case of road violence an elderly man killed by a driver. Once again, irresponsible reporting blames the victim for jaywalking, instead of addressing the real danger.
- Doing violence with a car has very little consequence than doing it any other way. This is how i know cars are more important than people.
4. El Llamado a la Acción y la Conmemoración.
Las comunidades y activistas utilizan eventos como el Día Mundial del Recuerdo (WDoR) para honrar a las víctimas y exigir cambios políticos concretos, como la implementación de Vision Zero y la legislación de seguridad. Se enfatiza que la prevención es posible si se prioriza la seguridad sobre la velocidad.
- World Day of Remembrance sunday nov 16 11-12 luuwit view park ne 127th fremont remember loved ones killed in traffic violence support survivors act to pass stopsuperspeeders legislation.
- Deep gratitude for the activists and political leaders advancing a vision zero agenda. Traffic violence is not inevitable. Stopping it is possible and necessary.
- We are committed to building and sustaining a diverse coalition of advocates and organizations around a single goal ending traffic violence.
- Families are sharing their stories of loved ones lost to traffic violence. Their voices are the most powerful call for leaders to remember, support, and act so everyone can move safely.
- Traffic fatalities traffic violence are not inevitable.
5. Comparación con Otras Formas de Violencia.
Para dimensionar la magnitud del problema, se compara la violencia vial con otras crisis de seguridad pública, como la violencia armada y los incidentes en el transporte público, destacando que la amenaza de los vehículos es estadísticamente mucho mayor, pero menos reconocida.
- Somehow traffic and gun violence has been accepted as part of life that cant be changed.
- American roads have become more dangerous than violent crimes in los angeles, san francisco, houston, and other major cities.
- By the numbers, every i have concerns about safety commenter should each be about 700x more outraged and up in arms about automobile violence.
- If any other act of violence killed 3 people in 2 days in calgary it would be front page news.
- Car violence kills more people in canada than crime! .oh gosh a lot of people are killed and injured by car violence.