This new analysis ranks all 435 US House districts by their average annual pedestrian fatality rate between 2020 and 2024.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari’s district (AZ-03) is the most deadly by both fatality rate (7.94) and total fatalities (324 from 2020-24).

https://wordpress.smartgrowthamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Dangerous-by-Design-2026_Congressional-Rankings_9.16.pdf

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[–] 8 points 4 days ago* (2 children)

This is interesting but I'm not sure how useful. Many districts are wacky gerrymandered spaghetti. And I feel like the car violence in many districts isn't due to the federal politician so much as local issues, car brains/cult, racism, etc.

For example district 3 in AZ is basically downtown Phoenix. I don't know how much I would blame the current congressperson for that. It seems like a more deeply ingrained problem with the city and state.

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  • [+] -7 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Stop making excuses. Be better.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 days ago

    what excuses are they making? They said that rhe problem is THE PEOPLE not the representative . And yes in my opinion the people are always the problem when a chronic issue keeps om and keeps on occurring or getting worse. The people are the ones who do the majority of the work to construct and upkeep car-centric imfrastructure not a random elected official.... so shouldnt the people be the ones to blame instead when a chronic problem keeps on and keeps on occurring?

    Bro if the average person in downtown phoenix held a weapon to the head of every constriction worker , architect , civil engineer in that district that proposed or attempted to worked on a new car -centric peice of infrastructure....what do you think phoenix would look like in 25 years?... far less car centric thats for certain.

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