First lady Michelle Obama’s campaign to get people to exercise outdoors might be a factor in an increase in the number of pedestrian deaths during the first half of last year, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association. GHSA executive director Barbara Harsha said her organization doesn’t know why there were more deaths in the first six months of 2010 than in 2009, but the increase is notable because overall traffic fatalities went down 8 percent during this period, and the increase ends four straight years of steady declines in pedestrian deaths. But the “get moving” movement, led by Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign to eliminate childhood obesity, could be to blame, Harsha told The Washington Examiner.
The GHSA laying blame for increased pedestrian deaths upon First Lady Michelle Obama's Get Moving campaign is completely deplorable and disgusting. The real problem is the structural deficiencies in roadway and streets design that ignore the safety and security of pedestrians by promoting the fast and efficient movement of automobile.
Until the highway engineers get it in their heads that pedestrian safety come first on American roadways, we will only hear more about this. Laying the blame on campaigns to reduce obesity will continue to be commonplace.
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