[WashingtonPost] Lower-income neighborhoods in the District [of Columbia] recorded eight times more traffic fatalities in recent years than the city's wealthiest area, an analysis shows, as residents call for more enforcement and road improvements following the deadliest year on city streets in more than a decade.
The 40 traffic fatalities in the nation's capital last year were the most since 2007, fueled by what authorities say is a proliferation of unsafe driving during the coronavirus pandemic that reflects an alarming rise in traffic deaths nationwide. The toll has fallen disproportionately on the city's two poorest wards, which contain less than one-quarter of Washington's population but nearly half of its road deaths.
as you might expect, the WaPo and the 'experts' they interviewed say this is because of racism even though the mayor since 2014 is black and the one before that was black and the city council is majority black and the chief Transportation official of the city is black, etc. |