I lived a chunk of my childhood on a road where most of the traffic was tractor trailers. I went outside and even waited for the bus. Nobody died, nobody got hurt.

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IAmBroom 4 hours ago | parent [-]

That "nobody" is restricted to your very tiny experience. Worldwide, cars kill kids, a lot.

Datum vs Data, again.

	▲	morsch 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't know about worldwide, but in Germany[1] the number of children injured or killed in traffic has been on a downward slope for about 40 years. That includes pedestrians. And despite the fact that number of cars has gone up up up[2]. Of course parents being more restrictive with their kids may well be one of the reasons why the number has gone down (there are many confounding factors). [1] and, at first glance, most of Europe https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Verkeh... (pages 53 onwards among others) [2] +40% more cars, in absolute terms, than in 1990!! Crazy.