@jonjon.jpeg: Yesterday there was a horrific crash. When I came back today, there was another. Both involved teenagers on bicycles. In each case, the fire department, police, and eyewitnesses will work together to assign blame. Who made the last mistake that could have prevented this? But that focuses on the wrong issue. It looks only at the active error, the final mistake. Real solutions come from looking upstream, at what are called latent errors. The goal is not to assign blame, but to reduce how often we ever need to. #carculture #crash #pedestriansafety #trafficsafety #urbanism
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Friday 26 September 2025 21:48:09 GMT
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Auntie Winter :
I’m a city manager in Texas and I have learned so much from your videos. We are set to double in size in the next 5 years. You have no idea how much positive influence you have had on the development of my city….thank you!
2025-09-28 01:49:45
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Callum :
This concept is applicable so far beyond traffic, transportation, and medicine, thank you for giving us a word for it
2025-09-26 22:27:03
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Pdx_groot :
I just started reading “There Are No Accidents” and this video feels very timely
2025-09-26 23:00:49
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Bullfrogjam :
Latent error = systemic problem
2025-09-27 13:25:39
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Natasha Alyxandrya :
A child riding a scooter was hit by a car in my town. The local news spent 5 minutes of their 30 minute show lecturing viewers on scooter safety as if *we* were all children. It was obnoxious to say the least. 🙄
2025-09-27 18:30:31
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dholcombpa :
As a cyclist, I appreciate your separating these responses
2025-09-26 23:41:41
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Lei :
This concept applies to life in general not just traffic, thank you for the reminder!
2025-09-27 01:26:31
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Banana Bread :
"at some point we got a stop fishing people out of the river and figure out why they are falling in to begin with"
2025-09-28 01:48:08
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Liz :
my car was totaled last year at an intersection where there is an almost identical accident every 2 weeks. been this way for 20 years. city WILL NOT put in a red light with turn signal there. its just a stop sign where the secondary meets the main road
2025-09-27 16:56:16
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SJenki :
Aviation Safety likes to call this "The Five Whys" to practice identifying Latent Errors and contributing factors!
2025-10-01 07:05:55
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Kayla B :
Love this video. I am an urban planning consultant that does transportation safety planning. Will be keeping this in mind
2025-09-29 05:48:16
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A_Clever_Name :
“Solving an active error, doesn’t solve the problem it just assigns blame” well said. 🔥
2025-09-28 17:09:46
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volcelLARPer :
we all make mistakes
2025-10-01 07:40:33
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Clayton Welch :
I appreciate your passion towards fixing this major systemic issue
2025-09-27 21:49:46
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Thesethtroyer :
The airline example is very relevant, Korean Air in the late 1900s had more crashes than other airlines and found the latent errors to address the issue
2025-09-29 05:12:02
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TheBitchinBitch :
As a cyclist, I think this might be my favorite video of yours so far. I want to feel safe biking around my city and it's hard when everything is so car dominated. A cyclist can do everything right and still get hit by a car because the infrastructure isn't there to create a safe environment.
2025-09-29 22:58:51
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Just Means :
Root cause analysis is a tool that cities could employ for every accident like this to learn from it and make corrective actions to help prevent them
2025-09-28 18:04:02
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Scrupulous_Lunatic :
I live in a pedestrian hostile city. Pedestrians are blamed for being in the road illegally where pedestrian facilities do not exist.
2025-10-01 20:03:56
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Stephie :
Our streets need to be safe for teenagers and kids to ride. thank you for speaking out.
2025-09-29 23:28:05
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Lindsay Keen, Realtor :
Man, I accidentally found my people here in this comment section. 🥰
2025-10-01 04:15:27
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DJ :
solving for the latent error should be talked about more because finger pointing solves nothing.
2025-09-29 23:49:53
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garlicstarship :
In my city there has been an increase of people driving into bldgs. A driver just killed someone by driving into the Barnes and Noble in Ladue, MO. Because of your video, I said if we’ve ruled out age, intoxication, weather- it could be a design issue. 👍👍👍
2025-10-06 13:32:40
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Hifen :
If you haven't been to the Netherlands you need to. their roads are amazing
2025-10-05 16:47:23
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I_cant_and_i_wont :
He speaks the truth
2025-09-28 23:06:02
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