Imagine you are old enough to work, but too young to drive. There's a cheap, efficient alternative you have access to, but only if you accept injury/death as an outcome, b/c politicians rank your needs & human rights as less important than driver convenience or traffic flow. This is #RoadViolence.
She even gets a fucking year to pay the tiny license fee to kill someone. #BC #RoadViolence #Driving
A woman was allowed to take this absurd monstrosity, described as unsafe by police, onto public roads and into a parking lot where she killed a woman. The consequences? A fine less than the cost of a decent notebook computer and she can go home. #AutoCulture #Impunity #RoadViolence
Traffic deaths are not accidents. They are predictable and preventable. People will always make mistakes on the road, or as in this case, drive recklessly. #VisionZero means designing streets so those mistakes or dangerous actions don’t become tragedies #RoadViolence
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New @capacite.bsky.social blog post gives a summary of a recent seminar from @tomflood.bsky.social on 'Reframing Road Safety: How Marketing Can Shift the Narrative on Road Violence'. Read it here: capacity-capacite.ca/tom-flood/ #RoadViolence #SafeStreets
Imagine if road violence was given the same level of consideration to stop the source that is causing death? 🤔
#RoadViolence
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Some of the replies saying the sentence was too soft, but at 12 years that's a lot more justice than most #RoadViolence victims get.
Still though, when are we going to get preventative policing? How the hell is anyone allowed to think that doing 60 in a 30 is normal?
If you are hurting and struggling in the aftermath of #RoadViolence, you are not alone. You are warmly welcome to join our monthly #PeerSupport Meeting, Sunday March 8 from 1-3pm. To join on Zoom, please DM us for the link. More info: www.ffsafestreets.ca/support_serv...
We walked past the aftermath about an hour later when the road was still closed. There was a pair of boots close to the crosswalk that were being photographed. We asked the cop if it was a pedestrian hit but they wouldn't say. It was certainly my instinct based on the scene #RoadViolence
#RoadViolence #RoadSafety #CarDependency #ActiveMobility #SustainableTravel #Criminology #UrbanStudies
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Some journalists reporting on road violence have no respect or compassion to the victims.
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I hear ya' too, but it shouldn't be & I'll fight till my dying breath to change the status quo. #RoadViolence is a political & societal choice & we can & should change that. And #CarBrain is a pernicious disease!
It's top of mind for me rn - dashcam footage shows the violent man who mowed down 134 people in Liverpool in May '25 driving dangerously beforehand. That nobody died is b/c his speed was limited but the emotional scars will likely never heal. CW #RoadViolence www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 2/2
The thing that scares me most - as someone relying on my feet, my bike or on buses to get around my city - is the aggression that I see among drivers on a daily basis. Excessive speed, jumping red lights, failing to stop, this #RoadViolence is downplayed & typically goes unpunished 1/2
When it comes to road safety, zero is the only acceptable number. It's several years old now, but this video still packs a punch #VisionZero #SafeStreets #RoadViolence #ZeroVisionHFX youtu.be/yHhiUv9hX-o
This is tragic, and happened on the eve of World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims too. Five young lives snuffed out, countless families left bereft, first responders left traumatised 💔 #RoadViolence #SafeStreets www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
CONTENT WARNING: This is horrific, but it is entirely predictable when there is zero vision from our elected officials to address #RoadViolence. We have to do better. #VisionZeroHFX anyone or are we going to contine as #ZeroVisionHFX? #CarBrain #SafeStreetsNS #ActiveMobilityMatters #VisionZero
as the news is sadly reporting #roadviolence
Exactly. All so preventable if our so-called leaders truly cared #RoadViolence #CarBrain
Johanna Dean & Meinhard Doelle, alongside many others, had their lives cut short through a lack of safe, protected infrastructure. They were both brilliant people. You can read about them here (www.dignitymemorial.com/en-ca/obitua...) & here (www.dal.ca/faculty/law/...) #RoadViolence #SafeStreetsNS
When, in our disconnected, me, me, me culture, did the lives of our neighbors, even children, become virtually worthless? The other van driver, also drives away underlining how poorly schooled we are in managing and responding to #RoadViolence. @pitaarji.bsky.social
I witnessed the aftermath of 2 auto crashes this week. There was significant damage to the cars in both & in one, damage to the hazard warning sign marking a pedestrian crosswalk. That's at least $28k, if no injuries (2018 CRISP study: drivetolive.ca/research/col...) #RoadViolence #SafeStreetsNS
On September 19, someone's mom was killed in Guelph by the driver of a pickup truck. The driver has now been charged. (Mom was killed but her husband and 3-year-old daughter in a stroller were struck as well!!!) On August 29, a Guelph cyclist was killed by the driver of a garbage truck. The driver has now been charged. But today, the @guelphpoliceservice announce a month long campaign of enforcement against people on bikes to ensure they know the rules of the road? This is a police service demonstrating a failure to adequately respond to road safety issues. It lacks compassion and empathy for the two people (and their families) who were killed by dangerous and careless drivers. The Service should be reviewed and it's priorities dictated to it by Guelph City Council as GPS appear unable/unwilling to address the true dangers on our roadways. The lack of compassion, understanding, nuance, etc. boils our blood and rocks our faith in the Service to it's core. I doubt we are alone. Ride safe Guelph Cycling friends, the law is after you. - The Biking Lawyer
CBC News Headline: Garbage truck driver charged after cyclist killed in Guelph 37-year-old man charged with careless driving causing death CBC News · Posted: Sep 24, 2025 9:27 AM EDT | Last Updated: September 24
Guelph Today Headline: Charges now laid in Paisley Road pedestrian fatality The 19-year-old driver of the pickup truck that killed a Guelph mom crossing the road Sept. 19 has been charged with careless driving causing death
On Sep 19, a pickup truck driver killed a mother while hospitalizing her 3-year-old daughter and husband.
103 pedestrians/cyclists were killed or severely injured by motorists in #Guelph last year - none by cyclists.
GPS priorities: 🗑️
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On September 19, someone's mom was killed in Guelph by the driver of a pickup truck. The driver has now been charged. (Mom was killed but her husband and 3-year-old daughter in a stroller were struck as well!!!) On August 29, a Guelph cyclist was killed by the driver of a garbage truck. The driver has now been charged. But today, the @guelphpoliceservice announce a month long campaign of enforcement against people on bikes to ensure they know the rules of the road? This is a police service demonstrating a failure to adequately respond to road safety issues. It lacks compassion and empathy for the two people (and their families) who were killed by dangerous and careless drivers. The Service should be reviewed and it's priorities dictated to it by Guelph City Council as GPS appear unable/unwilling to address the true dangers on our roadways. The lack of compassion, understanding, nuance, etc. boils our blood and rocks our faith in the Service to it's core. I doubt we are alone. Ride safe Guelph Cycling friends, the law is after you. - The Biking Lawyer
CBC News Headline: Garbage truck driver charged after cyclist killed in Guelph 37-year-old man charged with careless driving causing death CBC News · Posted: Sep 24, 2025 9:27 AM EDT | Last Updated: September 24
Guelph Today Headline: Charges now laid in Paisley Road pedestrian fatality The 19-year-old driver of the pickup truck that killed a Guelph mom crossing the road Sept. 19 has been charged with careless driving causing death
On Sep 19, a pickup truck driver killed a mother and her 3-year-old daughter and husband were hospitalized in #Guelph.
103 pedestrians/cyclists were killed or severely injured by motorists last year. none of this was done by cyclists.
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Not again...
#kitchener #guelph #roadviolence
If you are struggling in the aftermath of #RoadViolence, you are not alone. You are warmly welcome to join us on Sunday Sept 14 at 1:00pm for our monthly #PeerSupport meeting. Please DM us for the Zoom link.
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If you are struggling and hurting in the aftermath of #RoadViolence, you are not alone. You are warmly welcome to join us Sunday at 1:00pm for our monthly #PeerSupport meeting. More info: www.ffsafestreets.ca/support_serv...
#TODeadlyStreets #DeadlyByDesign #SafeStreetsSaveLives #BikeTO #WalkTO
Screenshot from a report on changing the narrative on road deaths in London, UK. Text reads: How do we address motonormativity? The action that is needed to achieve Vision Zero, while including how we talk about it, goes beyond this to societal change. Nneka Henry, Head of UN Road Safety Fund: “It is not enough to wish for safer streets or to imagine that the limited resources which are currently being invested is nearly enough to make it happen. This moral imperative requires us to invest in infrastructure, enforce laws, and educate the public, all while treating each life on the road with the utmost respect.”26 Alter the language around driving RoadPeace first made the case for using ‘crash’ not ‘accident’ to describe what happens when a driver runs into a person or another car over 25 years ago: “Crashes have causes and contributory factors, accidents have excuses. Using ‘accident’ encourages a sense of fatalism, with fewer resources invested in prevention efforts as a result.”27
Take a look at this report by @carolinerussell.bsky.social (thx to @maxsullivan.bsky.social). A must read for anyone who wonders why the needle on #RoadViolence isn't moving & for policymakers who actually care about their constituents. Hard-hitting, unequivocal 👏 www.london.gov.uk/sites/defaul...
The 2018 CRISP study estimated $14k+ for a crash resulting in property damage only, $48k+ if injury & $225k+ for fatal collision. We could have built the bike network for less than collisions have cost us in 2025 alone drivetolive.ca/research/col... #RoadViolence #CarBrain
