And lo, that source's number one safety tip for night driving:
> 1. Allow for enough distance to stop. We recommend that you gauge this distance using your headlights. Low beams should allow you to see up to 160 feet away, while high beams should illuminate about 500 feet in front of you. Make sure that, if and when you must brake hard, that you can brake within those distances.
And what a great tip it is! "Drive so that if you need to brake, you don't collide". No shit, Sherlock.
In other words, people just need to always drive far slower than what everyone believes they can handle in a situation that they aren't trained for, and everything will be fine. Everyone who collides anyway is just reckless and stupid!
Now please excuse me, I have exhausted my sarcasm budget for today.
Good start, but that doesn't say that night driving isn't safe. It says that most accidents happen at night. Accidents are rare.
The page also lists drunk and drowsy driving as one of the major reasons why night driving is less safe. These are correlated risk factors, but neither has to do with the conditions being inherently unsafe.
The page doesn't talk about the extent to which drunk and drowsy drivers account for nights being dangerous.
>> Good start, but that doesn't say that night driving isn't safe.
It also doesn't say that it is safe. It lists all kind of risks that make it unsafe in one way or another. Whose definition of "safe" are we supposed to go by, anyway?
We can probably at least agree on what isn't safe: Crossing a road at night into incoming traffic, as a pedestrian.
