Unsafe at Many Speeds - What traffic speeds are safer and more dangerous for pedestrians (interactive graph) - ProPublica

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Visual Evidence looks at the ways design and data visualization can create or solve real-world problems, from making weather warnings easier to read to finding meaning on the bottom of our shoes. This week, we’ll transform some data on an everyday — some might even say, pedestrian – topic into a more visual and interactive form.

No really, it’s data on actual pedestrians.

The following chart shows how likely you are to be killed if you are a pedestrian hit by a car traveling at various speeds. Hover over the curved lines to see risk of death at any speed.

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Unsafe at Many Speeds - What traffic speeds are safer and more dangerous for pedestrians (interactive graph) - ProPublica