Health: curving country roads actually make drivers slow down. At least when I’m a back seat driver…
It’s the wide highway type roads that are the usual speeding magnets. However, reckless drivers drive recklessly everywhere, so maybe we can never cross the street with walkways and traffic signals in the city either.
And in the city busy streets near schools (public and private) may be without traffic signals, and if nobody writes a letter to the DOT requesting a traffic signal it stays that way. Even with a letter it’s pending approval after a drawn out review. Zoning doesn’t effect squat.
There may be roads unsafe for walking, so we need to work on making them safer via sidewalks etc. but this was NOT the case here. Bringing in extraneous information, some of it erroneous, detracts from the fact that the driver was careless here and simply fosters hate.
I’d compare it to saying someone got hit on her way to Shul Shabbos so she’s partly to blame for her own death because women are not required to daven with a minyan and guarding one’s nefesh is more important. Do we expect us all to become hermits because leaving the house may be dangerous?