Research: How News Coverage of Car Crashes Favors Drivers - CityLab

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Safety advocates have long complained that media outlets tend to blame pedestrians and cyclists who are hit by cars. Research suggests they’re right.

Since 2013, deaths among pedestrians and cyclists on U.S. roads have risen by nearly 30 percent and 14 percent respectively. Yet the public reaction to this spike in deaths has been fairly muted. Why?

One possible reason: road safety advocates have long complained that media outlets tend to blame pedestrians and cyclists who are hit by cars. A paper published earlier this year in a journal of the National Academy of Sciences’ Transportation Research Board offers proof that they’re right.

Read the full paper here:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0361198119825637

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Research: How News Coverage of Car Crashes Favors Drivers - CityLab