Detroit 2nd Deadliest City for Pedestrians
http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/09/08/...r-pedestrians/
With 10.31 pedestrian deaths annual [[per 100,000 residents), Detroit comes in at the second deadliest city in the world for walkers, after Atlanta and just before L.A.
also, according to Time, Detroit has less than 100,000 residents. mmmmk.
I lived in Detroit (City of) for fifty years...
...until '03 when I left Mich. I grew up around Denby High on the NE side and lived in Corktown for ten years during the '90s. Detroiters all too often walk around with an aversion to sidewalks and traffic lights. I used to see young people walk down the middle of Gratiot and Van Dyke in traffic as if it was the norm.
It's not just careless pedestrian thing in Detroit. Folks have fires in their homes from cooking late at night from disregarding what is on the stove and they roll right through red lights without stopping, and all too often run red lights straight away. Then there is there thing with dicking around with guns.
In America it seems the poorer the people, the more disregard there is for personal safety.