We have written safety for older drivers, after the loss of vision, motor skills or intellectual capacity, much about the car. But a current Los Angeles Times report should be noted that senior citizens are also at risk of road accidents outside their car. Last month "Dangerous by design" study of fatalities from 2000 to 2009 included seniors in fact a disproportionate 22 per cent of the pedestrian deaths, at the same time to 13% of the population. This morning, a group of San Francisco senior citizens, accidents pedestrian area bring with the attention to senior planning a road safety event named "Deathrace 2011."

DeathRace will take place at 10: 30 today morning at the corner of third and Yosemite Street in San Francisco Bayview neighborhood. Senior action network chose this location, because it's popular senior centers in the vicinity of the city and for acceleration drivers and dangerous pedestrian Strip is known. The protest has perfect timing. Last month, for example, more than 50 senior citizens were in a pedestrian accident injured, and 16 hospitalized or were killed. In the last decade, deaths in San Francisco (2.9) mourned San Francisco senior citizens of a death rate of 8.1 seniors per 100,000, almost three times the national average for seniors (2.92) and overall pedestrian zone.

Dangerous by design fingered San Francisco, as the country of 4th dangerous at pedestrian deaths. And San Francisco, California counts as the dangerous.

"Roads are no longer primarily for traffic as quickly as possible, transition" Noah Budnick said, Deputy Director of the New York-based transport alternatives. "Our roads are, where we live in this city, and walking is the primary mode of how people deal." "But older people have just not enough time to cross the road." The same applies here in San Francisco, and DeathRace plans to stress that officials should plan the streets of the city of safety for all ages.

We have seen far to many San Francisco deaths pedestrian zone in the first months of the year 2011. I hope that the senior attention urgently needed action network DeathRace 2011 reducing pedestrian deaths for all ages including seniors will bring.

Photo credit: Ethan Prater

UPDATE: Here, the Bay of the citizen is report after the yesterday's Deathrace. Lead with this video:

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