Road design, safety and Vision Zero

[tomh009]

I don't know about London or Hamilton, but I don't think road design is at fault in the incident on 7/8.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener...-1.5823367

I'm not saying it is. But a person is dead, and that did not need to happen.

It did not need to happen, no. But driver in the original incident lost control (mistake? summer tires? something else?). And people made the mistake of exiting the car, and standing in a dangerous place, and were hit by another car whose driver was trying to avoid the original incident. Likely the visibility was bad so the driver did not see the people in time.

I don't have an easy solution for this one. Driving slower in poor conditions would make a lot of sense but is difficult to enforce. Putting out a flare or a warning triangle for the accident would be good but most people don't have those (four-way flashers would be better than nothing). Teaching people to avoid danger after an accident is important but many people don't think of this.