More than 150 car models too big for regular UK parking spaces - eviltoast

While this is mostly about parking issues, the part that stood out most to me in this is:

A study published in the Journal of Safety Research last year found that children were eight times more likely to die when struck by an SUV than those struck by a passenger car.

Eight times! To me, that’s insane. Even if it were 50% that would be very bad, but this is 700% more!

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    1 year ago

    As an American I completely agree. I got blasted from behind riding my bicycle to work by one of those oversized emotional support vehicles last September. That asshole nearly killed me and I WAS a healthy man in his 40s, not a child. A child would have easily died from that.

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        1 year ago

        I can’t remember where I saw it for the first time but it was shortly after my accident and it was so fitting. Feel free to use it and spread it around.

        I got hit by a Dodge Ram so my other lame joke is “I can take a full ram from a Dodge Ram”.