Why does Britain have "zebra crossings"?
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Thanks to Chris Marshall of roads.org.uk for helping with the research for this video!
https://www.roads.org.uk/articles/ped...
1935 vehicle licensing and fatality stats from:
https://web.archive.org/web/201109091...
2023 vehicle licensing stats from:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statist...
2023 fatality stats from:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statist...
1926-2016 fatality stats from:
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/...
Clip used from "Pedestrian Crossing" (1948)
• 1948 Pedestrian Crossing
Photos licensed from Alamy
Zebra crossing photo was taken by a local band in the 60s
A lot of my research was through the British Newspaper Archive
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.c...