whoever made this map didn't want to complicate with the small states on the north-east, 0.99 Massachusetts or Connecticut? yes. Delaware? what's that? Vermont? byebye
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What the hell, New Mexico!? You're the only one above 4, and you're almost 5!
Honestly it doesn't surprise me. I think I lost like 5 old high school classmates in 6 months due to them being drink behind a wheel and killing themselves and others. There's nothing to do, the culture of the entire state revolves around hanging with friends and drinking, there's alcohol for sale at almost every store in the state besides dollar stores and because everyone drinks and drives there's no one with common sense to talk others out of it.
Few cities have public transit, and most of it is piss poor, so people walk if they don't have a car. Sidewalk infrastructure is a joke so people end up walking in the road. Now you see the issue.
Like someone else pointed out, 2/3 people are under the influence of something while driving in NM. Most of the time it's alcohol, the rest is either weed or coke.
All of that is true for Wisconsin and North Dakota too. I'm guessing NM is just a deadly combination of all the drunk drivers, plus being warm enough to walk year round (in ND and WI, pedestrians are only getting mowed down in the summer. Too cold to walk the rest of the year)
Years ago, i flew out to a friend's wedding in Albuquerque and rented a car. On seeing my new England liscence, the rental agent warned me,
"Out here, one in 3 drivers are drunk. That's not a statistic- if you can see 2 other cars, one of them has a drunk ar the wheel! Drive accordingly"
Does this correlate with a map of pedestrian trips per capita? If yes, then this map isn't so interesting.
I'm guessing weather is the strongest correlation. States with year round warm weather have higher rates. After that it looks like cities with more urban populations have lower numbers
USA! USA!
It's actually kind of what is reflected in this map: so many fewer deaths in the north because they have much less time per year when anyone, even reasonably motivated or inclined people are able to walk or bike due to harsh winter weather and poor public transit and urban planning.
Look at Oregon, it's got tons of bikers compared to a Wyoming, but greater density so many more deaths. Pedestrian deaths are combo of transport options, culture, inclination, and environmental variables. Cleveland Ohio probably has much worse active/bike culture than Portland but the weather is so much harsher than Portland there are less pedestrians to hit as people are inside or in cars.
I was going to say, who TF in Maine is walking on þe street?
I first read "Palestinian Deaths" and was confused.
New Mexico doesn't top many good US State lists.
Nice to see this one
I don't think it's a good list to top
Oh! For some reason I saw pedestrian paths.
I already knew we were the leaders in pedestrian deaths.
Massive homeless population, combined with an abundance of stroads designed to kill. Albuquerque is a murder machine.
At least it's a kickass Weird Al song.
/s ?
/confused
In this chart higher numbers are worse, and new Mexico had the highest number of all
I read the title as Pedestrian Paths
That's why I was /confused.
Hah, yeah kinda the opposite
I thought that was Arktexas
No data on maryland, connecticut, massachusetts, vermont?
Do people not walk in the alcoholism capital(Wisconsin)? ... and West Virginia? Them's some weird outliers.
If you'd ever been to West Virginia, you'd understand why it has basically no pedestrians. Rural, mountainous, no public transit, not much of anywhere worth walking to, etc.
I get that much, but break-downs are also more common on such roads, along with the low income for that state meaning most of the cars are junk to start-with. Pedestrian deaths may be low for the reasons you've listed, but close to Plains-state Nebraska low? With all of those switch-backs and mountain roads?
I think you overestimate how populous this state is and how many people walk around. Most of the state’s population find it easier to roll around then walk and I don’t mean roll around in a car either lol. Biggest city in the state has like 50k people as a high count
The map is based on per-capita statistics. The total population wouldn't affect that per se.
Nebraska avoids pedestrian deaths with this one weird trick!
Nebraska doesn't actually exist. I drove out there once. There are only corn fields and roads.
I was thinking the "one weird trick" was being almost entirely unwalkable.