Electric vehicles collide with pedestrians at twice the rate of their petrol or diesel counterparts, particularly in crowded towns and cities, a British Medical Journal survey released Wednesday shows.details how electric vehicles are statistically much more dangerous than vehicles with an internal combustion engine on urban roads due to being quieter.
Phil Edwards, first author on the study and professor of epidemiology and statistics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, set out the problem with electric vehicles: Road traffic accidents are the leading cause of death among children and young adults in the UK, with pedestrians making up a quarter of all deaths on the roads.found that electric and hybrid cars posed a 20 percent higher risk to pedestrians than petrol and diesel cars, and a 50 percent higher risk during low-speed moves, such as turning, reversing, starting into traffic and pulling to a stop.