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Poll result: Almost half of Richmond News readers feel "somewhat' safe on local roads

Less than a third of the readers who answered the poll question, "do you feel safe driving in Richmond?" said they did not feel at all safe
Alan Campbell
Alan Campbell
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This driver swung around the Francis and No. 2 roads intersection at high speed, but somehow managed to stay inside the linesPhoto submitted

Richmond News polled 262 Richmond News readers and asked the question: Do you feel safe driving in Richmond?

The poll ran from 11/17/2022 to 11/21/2022. Of the 262 votes, we can determine that 89 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:

Totally 25.84 % local, 22.52 % total    
Somewhat 51.69 % local, 45.80 % total    
Not at all 22.47 % local, 31.68 % total    
  Local   Total

Results are based on an online study of adult Richmond News readers that are located in Richmond. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 6.05%, 19 times out of 20.

Richmond News uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.