The norwegian road authorities (SVV) has the same stats, most accidents happen on a pedestrian/zebra crossing. So they misuse that statistics to claim it's not safe to build... So kids being dropped off the school bus at a road with 50 km/h that needs to cross, where the parents are asking for a safe way to cross, are being told that "no, pedestrian crossings aren't actually more safe, they give a false sense of security", and thus rather have the kids run over the road at their own whim..
Do the traffic laws not provide for "blinking red lights on a school bus mandates traffic to stop in both directions" and with extremely heavy penalties an no tolerance for violations? Here, the school buses leave those lights flashing while students unload and while they cross to the other side of the street.
That seems like it would allow school kids to cross the road much more safely than painted lines would.
No, we don't really have dedicated school buses here in that sense. They're just normal buses where we in remote areas make the time table sync up with when people go to/from school. (And you may still need to cross the road safely at other times)
I mean it's the counterargument to the claim that "pedestrians need to take more responsibility and stop jaywalking/crossing on red/wearing dark colors and running into moving traffic at night"
