A screenshot reading: Official data linking smartphones and crashes is hard to find, though, given that the police typically don’t ask people involved if they were using phones (and those people might not answer truthfully anyway).

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   Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 12:56:08 JST Clive Thompson

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   Another thing that really stood out to me in that piece asking "why did American drivers start killing more and more pedestrians at night since 2008" ...

   ... was this data point:

   According to the reporters, after a driver hits a pedestrian, "police typically don’t ask people involved if they were using phones"

   If that's true, and I have no immediate reason to doubt the reporting, that is *nuts*

   Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/11/upshot/nighttime-deaths.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FE0.uEMf.FuV3jZhYzZHu&hpgrp=k-abar&smid=url-share