{"id":329831,"date":"2024-05-24T08:36:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T06:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=329831"},"modified":"2024-05-24T08:36:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T06:36:40","slug":"electric-cars-hit-pedestrians-at-twice-the-rate-of-petrol-or-diesel-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=329831","title":{"rendered":"Electric cars \u2018hit pedestrians at twice the rate of petrol or diesel vehicles\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Study finds the vehicles\u2019 quieter engines are a significant factor in higher fatality rates.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electric cars<\/a> hit pedestrians at double the rate of petrol or diesel vehicles<\/a>, a study in a BMJ journal has found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experts said that electric or hybrid cars were twice as likely to be involved in a road accident with a bystander than a petrol or diesel car over the same distance.\u00a0 The Telegraph<\/a> has the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The researchers suggested the vehicles\u2019 quieter engines were a significant factor in higher fatality rates and called on the Government to mitigate the risks as it phases out petrol and diesel cars in pursuit of net zero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study looked at the number of casualties from road collisions in Britain between 2013 and 2017 using Road Safety Data and calculated the number of pedestrians that had been hit by different types of cars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the period, 96,285 pedestrians were hit by a car or taxi. While three-quarters of these people had been hit by a car with a combustion engine, this was because they covered significantly more miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pedestrian casualties<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To overcome this, the researchers calculated the rate of casualties per 100 million miles covered by electric and hybrid cars<\/a> compared with petrol and diesel cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They found that 5.16 people on average were hit by an electric or hybrid car for every 100 million miles that type of vehicle had driven, compared with 2.4 people for petrol and diesel cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The road accident data were cross-referenced with annual mileage figures from the National Travel Survey, with 32 billion miles of\u00a0electric and hybrid vehicle<\/a>\u00a0travel and three trillion miles of petrol and diesel vehicle travel included in the analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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