Cascadian automobile crashes

Cascadian automobile crashes - by the numbers

Here is a real interesting counter. You can look in "real time" how many people and how much money is lost due to automobile crashes in the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia).

Car Crashes, By the Numbers (counter)

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Anonymous said…

I work in news and report on car crashes every day (five people just died in one on Tuesday). Seeing crumpled and mangled vehicles from my desk everyday makes me terrified to drive down the road... these stats don't help. But the counter is pretty interesting!

12:35 AM

Anonymous said…

We need to drive safe. We need to stop considering driving to be a "right". We need to respect the damage that the automobile can do, and treat it as the danger that it is.

People drive like they are sitting on the couch watching TV. They forget that people's lives are at stake. We need people to be more aware, awake, attentive, and considerate behind the wheel.

We need more frequent and more difficult license testing. We need a higher bar and more rigid standards to get drivers licenses.

If 40,000 Americans were killed in "terrorist" attacks you would bet someone would notice. Yet 40,000 are killed annually in cars, and no one blinks.

Our streets and our infrastructure need to be designed for PEOPLE, not cars. Cars are simply tools - they should not be the focus of our society and our community.

But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.

9:54 AM

Why shooting should be banned on public lands:

I don't need to say too much. The pictures speak for themselves. These pictures were taken at ONE spot on NF-45 forest road in Mt. Hood National Forest. The road is also known as "Memaloose" or "Maymaloose" road depending on which sign and map you read. It is maybe 50 miles outside of Portland, southeast on Hwy 224 - along the Clackamas river. The country up there is some of the most beautiful scenery on the planet. The ridge lines, and the deep jagged canyon from millions of years of raging water in the Clackamas river are something wonderful to behold. Driving up this road, we passed at least 5 spots that seemed to be popular with shooters, before we turned around. The road is a steep one lane paved road, and our GPS said we went from 700ft. at the river to 3000ft. almost instantaneously. At some points there are steep 1000 foot drops on either side of the road. It is breathtaking. Until you come across the shooting sites, which make you nauseous. I

Not safer, just stupider.

The first definition of stupider is "Slow to learn or understand; obtuse." I think that there would be good cause to add to it "See American". Today, while passing through the security checkpoint at Portland International (PDX) I witnessed the TSA personnel sending people to the back of the line for not taking off their flip-flops. They shouted endlessly about removing liquids, regardless of size. And they generally treat every one of us like we were infants incapable of understanding simple instructions. But perhaps they might be on to something.

Free Topographical Maps

The Libre Maps project has purchased and made available for free all of the USGS Topographical maps of the USA. All 50 states. The maps have always been free sort-of, there was just no where until now to actually GET them for free. The Libre Maps project raised enough funds to buy the many gigabytes of data and the Internet Archive is hosting them. These are great 24k scale topographical maps folks. The same types you pay for in sporting goods stores. And many applications on your computers can work directly with them and your GPS. You can get water and tear resistant paper and print them out.. All good stuff... For the lazy in the audience, here are Oregon's.

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