June 2020 – Person versus Automobile

Wait, Wait, Peter, Don’t Run From Me

Mission: To promote driving less so all may live more.

This post offers some quotes from Peter Sagal’s The Incomplete Book of Running (2018), a confessional book, both humorous and insightful.

Quotes & Notes

"The shift towards light trucks has likely taken the lives of thousands of additional people who were walking, biking, or using mobility devices to get around town. Research shows that a pedestrian is 3.4 times as likely to be killed if struck by an SUV or other light truck than if hit by a passenger car. This difference is attributed to differences in vehicle height, which help determine where on a person’s body a vehicle strikes a pedestrian and, in the case of a light truck, increases the likelihood that the motorist will run over the pedestrian’s body following impact."—Gregory Shill, "Should Law Subsidize Driving?"