Electric Cars Are Twice as Likely to Hit Pedestrians, Researchers Find

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An increasing proportion of cars traversing our roadways are electric vehicles or hybrids, which is great for the environment because they produce far fewer harmful emissions.

In the data, 74 percent of the accidents involved fossil fuel vehicles while 2 percent were from electric or hybrid vehicles — reflecting the market dominance of the internal combustion engine. "Given the damaging impacts of air pollution from petrol and diesel cars, overall electric cars are almost certainly better for our health, but our research shows that more needs to be done to reduce the risk they pose to pedestrians, particularly in noisy urban environments," said London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Professor of Epidemiology & Statistics and first author Phil Edwards in...

 

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