urbanSTL

A 17-year-old guy driving a 2018 Audi S4 with 354 hp with a girl he's trying to impress sitting in the right seat, unbelted... tragedy is basically inevitable. 

"Great place to raise children"

What do Taylor Swift and Drake’s release days have to do with road deaths? More than you’d think
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/23/pop_album_fatal_car_accidents/

It’s true. Me listening to “Sweet Nothing” while running over a curb in 2022.

The US Is Counting Traffic Deaths Wrong
By emphasizing the number of people killed per mile rather than deaths per capita, traffic safety groups risk normalizing the factors that make American roads so deadly. 
https://archive.ph/x6kCG

I used AI (Claude) to create a tool which exports SMLPD crash reports every morning. The dashboard represents the last 31 days of reported crashes in the City of St. Louis. 
https://stl-crashes.vercel.app/

My favorites are the graph which show what share of crashes involved someone fleeing. Yikes St. Louis. I also like the ranking of crashes by corridor.

Nice and sad.