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Never wait in the school car line again. Here’s how. For the first time in decades, a small but critical mass of children are riding their bikes safely to school again in the US. (wapo.st)
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Never wait in the school car line again. Here’s how. For the first time in decades, a small but critical mass of children are riding their bikes safely to school again in the US.

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[-] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

School drop offs increase danger to children.

A joint study released by York University, The Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto cites dangerous drop-offs on the opposite side of the road, cars stopped blocking traffic and double parking as cause for concern regarding the rise in collisions

We observed that in 88 per cent of the schools that we went to look at and with each additional behaviour it put kids at a 45 per cent increased risk of having a pedestrian collision

Of course the best mitigation measure:

If you can, walk your kids to school. Let your kids walk to school. The more kids walk, the fewer cars, the less chance of one of them being hit by those cars

https://globalnews.ca/news/2467916/school-drop-off-areas-pose-higher-risk-of-children-being-hit-by-vehicles-study/

Edit: study proper: http://news.yorku.ca/files/driver-behaviour.pdf

this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2024
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