tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666195730630249633.post604859174683922446..comments2024-03-25T17:49:41.408-07:00Comments on Salem Breakfast on Bikes: Drivers Strike and Kill Person Crossing Highway 22 in West SalemSalem Breakfast on Bikeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15618055627843335993noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666195730630249633.post-60570580777946564162016-11-05T08:18:52.742-07:002016-11-05T08:18:52.742-07:00BikePortland notes a disparity in rhetoric:
"...BikePortland <a href="http://bikeportland.org/2016/11/04/oregon-state-police-blames-vulnerable-victims-while-driving-deaths-spin-out-of-control-194799" rel="nofollow">notes a disparity in rhetoric</a>:<br /><br />"<i>What’s also troubling is how the OSP treats these deaths to people outside of motorized vehicles so much differently than fatal crashes that involve only people driving cars.<br /><br />While OSP felt the need to issue a special message about “pedestrians and bicyclists” safety because of three fatalities in nine days — they issued no such blame or special notice when seven people died and two were seriously injured in five separate collisions in the five days between October 21st and the 25th. That doesn’t include a 10-year-old girl who died Tuesday when the car she was in “drifted off” Highway 78, rolled several times, and ejected her from her seat....<br /><br />Where is the special safety message from the OSP imploring people to use more caution while driving, slow down, and be extra careful?<br /><br />The OSP is going out of their way to blame our most vulnerable road users while ignoring driving deaths. This not only shifts the agency’s safety resources and policy attention away from where it should be, but it results in an unnecessary fear of walking and biking and a corresponding lack of fear about the dangers of driving. This is the opposite of what we should be doing to get more people to walk and bike and fewer people to use cars.<br /><br />OSP’s messaging needs to improve if the State of Oregon is going to reach their stated goal of zero deaths by 2035.</i>"Salem Breakfast on Bikeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15618055627843335993noreply@blogger.com