Learning yesterday that preminent historian Gordon Wood had been killed by a driver, I googled to learn more, only to learn that another historian had also recently been killed by another driver in a town near me.
You might think "what are the chances?" until you remember how common this is.
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Nicola Verdon worked at Sheffield Hallam University, following lecturing roles in Leicester and the University of Sussex
This violence has been normalized and created by a culture devoted to driver at all cost planning. We coddle and bow down to every demand and when there is a human outside of the car sharing the space they are perceived as an obstacle and have already been dehumanized justifying their wrath.
Tom Flood
He yelled, I yelled, and the light turned. He went left, as did I, then all of a sudden he swerved right and pinned me into the curb. Luckily I braked in time and I was not seriously hurt or my bike damaged. The wife screamed. I noticed he had a kid in the car too. 4/
