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Media Too Often Blame the Victim in Pedestrian Crashes
The SF Examiner published an excellent editorial from Walk San Francisco Director Manish Champsee today that calls on the city and the media to improve conditions for pedestrians and not immediately blame the victim in crashes. When a vehicle killed 87-year-old Victor Cinti in mid-December, the Examiner ran a front-page headline "Jaywalker Killed." Sells papers, sure, but the headline and the article missed the details of the story and found culpability where they shouldn't, argues Champsee.
January 15, 2009