“The rising fatality figures come one day after the public learned a teenage skateboarder had died after colliding with an SUV last week.”
There. There you have it. All the possible causes lined out in the article like inexperienced drivers obviously CAN also be a cause, but SUVs are sure one big problem, which no one wants to acknowledge.
For example: https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/new-study-suggests-todays-suvs-are-more-lethal-to-pedestrians-than-cars
Or
Step one: build rapidly, with little more than token acknowledgment that there is an alternative to cars for transportation.
Step two: act shocked and surprised when cars (trucks, really) travel at high rate of speed through the streets (that are designed to move traffic around quickly) and kill pedestrians and cyclists.
