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Originally Posted by go_leafs_go02
let the police do the investigating. They know what they're doing.
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The police are not going to come back from an investigation and say, "the street is at fault." They're absolutely not trained to be urban planners or traffic engineers; only to establish who hit whom, what speed they were going, whether alcohol was involved, and whether either or both parties were violating traffic rules.
My point is that it's actually a distraction, from a policy perspective, to focus exclusively on who is nominally "at fault" in a given collision. The road system itself is a major contributing factor to pedestrian fatalities when it encourages vehicles to travel at a speed that has a 95 percent fatality rate for vehicle/pedestrian collisions.
However, it is not in the jurisdiction of the investigating officer to consider the problem at this level. As I said, they're not urban planners or traffic engineers.
To wait for the police report and then assume that it somehow settles the matter is dangerous, since the report doesn't even consider larger questions about the role of the traffic system.
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