For Star subscribers: A new report shows that the majority of pedestrians killed in the Tucson area last year were positive for meth, fentanyl or both. That helps explain why 70 pedestrians died in traffic.
Tim Steller For a decade, I've been banging the drum about Tucson's car culture, arguing it is killing vulnerable pedestrians and cyclists.
The drivers and the road design remain a big part of the problem, I'm convinced, leading naturally to speeding down wide avenues. But recent data starts to prove a point many people have made to me over the years: It's also the pedestrians' fault, perhaps even more so during this latest surge. This doesn't mean that all 51 were high on one or the other of these drugs, because some victims were positive for both. But it does mean a surprisingly large proportion of those killed were likely high.
Over the years, I've had my own experiences of this, but I've also been cautious not to put total faith in what drivers say. Behind the wheel, people have a tendency to think they own the road, that no one else belongs, and any incident is the other person's fault. Then the story took a twist:"Midblock crossing is the major contributing factor in the collision; however, leaving the scene of a fatal collision by the suspect driver is the focus of the investigation."
Impaired driving hard to quantifyConsider an earlier death, that of Manfred Rivas, who was 49 when he died while crossing in the 3200 block of North Stone Avenue. It was, perhaps not coincidentally, New Year's Eve, 2021 at about 6 p.m."Mr. Rivas was not in a crosswalk when he was struck by a white passenger vehicle that was traveling northbound in the curb lane. After striking Mr. Rivas, the white passenger vehicle continued northbound and did not stop.
So, what about the condition of the drivers who kill pedestrians? We know a few are impaired and get arrested for it, and a large number are not because police check them at the scene. But some unknown number likely flee because they were impaired.
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