More pedestrian injuries occur at crosswalks marked by both striping on ... ...

More pedestrian injuries occur at crosswalks marked by both striping on the roadway and flashing lights than occur at crosswalks not so marked. Obviously these so-called safety features are a waste of taxpayer money.

The reasoning in the argument is most vulnerable to criticism because the argument


(A) fails to consider that crosswalks marked by both striping and flashing lights are marked in this way precisely because they are the most dangerous ones
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(C) ...
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*This question is included in PT71 (Dec 2013): Logical Reasoning B