[News] Is this the start of a UK 'Stop the kindermoord' movement?

[Stat Brother]

The Stop the Kindermoord Movement, along with the fuel crisis, is what transformed The Netherlands away from car culture, in the early '70's.

Stop the kindermoord was a groundswell movement of parents (mother's) who'd had enough of cars ploughing into children.
They demonstrated, blocked roads, lobbied and protested and won.

Hundreds call for safer roads at Kings Heath rally after hit-and-run

Rally organisers say people are "sick to the stomach" of dangerous driving in Birmingham.

www.bbc.co.uk

Unlike the anti LTN protests, this first protest appears to have cross section support of the local community.






Driving illegally towards a 'stop driving illegally' protest probably isn't going to end well...




... For the driver.

 

[B-right-on]

No.

 

[Dr Q]

Wonder how many of them drive their kids to school?

 

[schmunk]

According to stats, which I've just checked, there were 17 pedestrians aged under-16 killed in 2021, and an average of about 25-30 per year in the 10 years prior.

Whilst each one of them is a sad loss, it's not really very many.

 

[wellquickwoody]

Caves are the future.

 

[1066familyman]

According to stats, which I've just checked, there were 17 pedestrians aged under-16 killed in 2021, and an average of about 25-30 per year in the 10 years prior.

Whilst each one of them is a sad loss, it's not really very many.

Oh, that's alright then. As we were.

 

[1066familyman]

Can't we just clone Dom instead? Almost single handed, he seems to be building a real Critical Mass vibe here

 

[1066familyman]

Caves are the future.

Is that why you moved to Oz

 

[wellquickwoody]

Is that why you moved to Oz

Yep, on average the biggest caves in the world, and usually supplied in pairs with the smaller one for the male of the species.

 

[rogersix]

According to stats, which I've just checked, there were 17 pedestrians aged under-16 killed in 2021, and an average of about 25-30 per year in the 10 years prior.

Whilst each one of them is a sad loss, it's not really very many.

what number would be unacceptable?

 

[Stat Brother]

According to stats, which I've just checked, there were 17 pedestrians aged under-16 killed in 2021, and an average of about 25-30 per year in the 10 years prior.

Whilst each one of them is a sad loss, it's not really very many.

That's odd - this is what the DoT say here

Number children aged 0-15 killed or seriously injured road casualties (3-year average) in England | LG Inform

This is the LGA standard report template which shows a single metric for a chosen area and comparison group and presents it in a number of different visualisations.

lginform.local.gov.uk

Bearing in mind 5 people are killed daily, I'd like to see how drivers are only targeting adults.

 

[Stat Brother]

Wonder how many of them drive their kids to school?

An odd statement to make, and have championed, about the protesters.

Surely you should have written:-

'i wonder how many of them drive through a pedestrian crossing hitting a women and child, then sped off, while driving their kids to school?'

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Wonder how many of them drive their kids to school?

In Landrover Defenders

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

According to stats, which I've just checked, there were 17 pedestrians aged under-16 killed in 2021, and an average of about 25-30 per year in the 10 years prior.

Whilst each one of them is a sad loss, it's not really very many.

Schools were also closed for the first few months of 2021

 

[HeaviestTed]

20mph in areas where people walk isn’t too much to ask

 

[HeaviestTed]

Also the problem with the current system is that the rules are complicated and change - the only a way to make sure people understand the current rules is regular retesting like every 10 years.

I live in a village with a bus that comes every two hours and stops at 7 so living here is hard without a car but I’d be happy to retest regularly if it made the roads safer.

 

[portlock seagull]

20mph in areas where people walk isn’t too much to ask

For many it is, just ask the speeders!

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Having driven through King's Heath relatively recently, I'd observe that the area seemed to consist largely of wide, residential streets that are very easy to drive too fast down, and there seemed to be a disproportionate number of people willing to do exactly that.

 

[severnside gull]

Protesting/blocking roads is now illegal in the UK

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

That's odd - this is what the DoT say here

Number children aged 0-15 killed or seriously injured road casualties (3-year average) in England | LG Inform

This is the LGA standard report template which shows a single metric for a chosen area and comparison group and presents it in a number of different visualisations.

lginform.local.gov.uk

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Bearing in mind 5 people are killed daily, I'd like to see how drivers are only targeting adults.

For clarity in this discussion, those KSI figures are not just those hit by vehicles but all road related casualties.