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Who Pays For Road Violence? Rethinking Roads, Cycling, And Tort Law, Celso Minoru Sakuraba
Who Pays For Road Violence? Rethinking Roads, Cycling, And Tort Law, Celso Minoru Sakuraba
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Road violence is now commonplace in North American cities. However, it has not always been like this. During the advent of the automobile, every road death was a source of outrage. It was concerted action from the motor industry, organized into the self-named “motordom,” that managed to shift the blame of the deaths. With the new perception that cars had the right to the roads, victims of road violence would start sharing that blame with drivers in the popular opinion. This shift affected law, including tort law. Before the advent of the motor vehicle, cycling law was an area of …