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About Toronto's Weekly Carnage:
Toronto's Weekly Carnage is inspired by NYC's Streetsblog Weekly Carnage feature. The aim of this series of posts is to bring attention to the death and destruction wrought by automobiles and an auto-centric culture. Pursuing policies promoting walking, cycling and public transit could help reduce the carnage.
Unidentified woman hit by truck dies
A unidentified woman who was critically injured when she was struck by a truck this morning has died.
Yonge And Lake Shore Rollover Snarls Traffic
A vehicle rollover at Yonge and the Lakeshore made for traffic traumas Thursday night. Emergency crews rushed to the scene just before 9pm.
Car Crash Sends Parked Vehicle Into Side Of Nearby Home
A serious crash happened Saturday morning that tore the front end off one car, shredding a utility pole and sending a parked car into the side of a home.
CityNews: StreetBeat - Sep. 30 - Fatal Crash On Hwy. 50 And Clarkway Dr.
A fatal crash in Brampton has left one person dead. The incident happened around 3:15am Sunday when a car wound up in a ditch in the Highway 50 and Clarkway Drive area.
Woman charged with drunk driving in fatal crash
A driver faces multiple charges, including drunk driving, after one of her passengers was killed in a single-vehicle collision early this morning.
Pedestrian critical after traffic accident
A pedestrian is in hospital this morning with lift-threatening injuries after being struck by a truck in the city’s north end.Related:
Drivers in fatal crash spared jail
Two drivers have been spared jail time for aggressive, high-speed driving that killed the parents of an 8-year-old Richmond Hill girl.
Rob and Lisa Manchester, aged 46 and 43, died when one of two Hondas roaring north on Yonge St. slammed broadside into their vehicle as it turned onto Stouffville Rd., ripping both vehicles apart.
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http://www.nicomachus.net/2007/10/the_outspokin_cyclist_hybrid_c.html
September 14th marked the 108 yr anniversary of first pedestrian death at the hands of an automobile in the United States. On September 13th, 1899, Henry Bliss stepped from a streetcar on Central Park West, in New York, and was struck by a taxicab. He died of his injuries the next morning. The event was reported on the front page of the New York Times.
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Teslas and Google cars may not run on gasoline (though, as hybrids the Google cars probably will), and weaning ourselves off petroleum products will surely reduce greenhouse gases. But keeping transit focused on the free-wheeling automobile will do nothing to address the 40,000 deaths per year that result from automobile crashes.
After all, the taxicab that killed Henry Bliss was electric.
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