The death of the world’s best marathon runner is part of a troubling global trend. “Car crashes are killing too many young Africans like Kelvin Kiptum.”
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While I agree that any vehicle-related deaths are a tragedy, especially when there are means of making cars safer and alternative/safer modes of transportation are becoming more accessible, adjusting by population growth, traffic accidents in Africa have declined.
https://jabberwocking.com/traffic-deaths-in-africa-are-down/
I am a progressive, but I also love data. And oftentimes vox and other progressive outlets look for the doomer take on every issue, when the underlying data doesn't support the clickbait headlines. This is why I love reading Kevin Drum, he's a stickler for measuring data correctly: adjusting for inflation and population growth, etc.
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