NEW YORK — Philadelphia resident Latanya Byrd's 27-year-old niece Samara Banks and three of Banks' sons were struck and killed by a speeding driver in 2013. They were crossing Roosevelt Boulevard, a 12-lane road that passes through some of the city's most diverse and lowest-income neighborhoods.
"It was just so devastating," Byrd told ABC News."We lost two generations in one swoop. I mean, just an instant snap of the finger."
Previous estimates were derived by calculating national traffic fatality counts by race and ethnicity across travel modes, sometimes adjusting for the population of each racial and ethnic group. They found that when examining only car drivers or passengers, the traffic fatality rate per mile traveled was 1.8 times higher for Black Americans than white Americans.
"It can be the same road that's getting fixed every year, and it's nowhere near as bad as the roads in the lower-income section of the city," she said. Raifman said their analysis could also indicate racial inequity in the medical service chain -- emergency response times, quality of care, access to health insurance and pre-existing conditions.
Byrd co-founded the advocacy group Families for Safe Streets Greater Philadelphia to confront the"epidemic" of traffic violence. She successfully lobbied for automated speed cameras, which were placed at eight intersections on Roosevelt Boulevard in June 2020.
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