Racism's deadly effects on US roads: Walking, biking are drastically more danger


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Racism's deadly effects on US roads: Walking, biking are drastically more dangerous for some Americans
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/r...rous-for-some-americans/ar-AAZDLaw?li=BBnb7Kz

The last road 50-year-old Ricardo Valdez ever walked along had only two lanes, but the speed limit was 55 mph. There were no street lights to illuminate his way and no sidewalks for him on that cold, midwestern January night.

His mother isn't sure where he was going, but she knows one thing that was on his mind at the time: Saving up to leave Ohio.

He wanted to live somewhere like Trinidad and Tobago, where he spent most summers growing up visiting family, said Rhona Noel, his mother. Maybe he would have gone south with his girlfriend and son to a city by the ocean, where it was warm year-round.

She wishes the cars went slower down that road on the outskirts of Dayton, Ohio. Or that there were streetlights. Maybe that would have helped prevent the truck from hitting her son.
 
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