Sentences with phrase «u.s. pedestrian deaths»

Safety experts point to the numbers: U.S. pedestrian deaths have been on the rise, with 5,376 in 2015 and nearly 6,000 last year, the most in two decades and up 22 percent from 2014, according to data compiled by the Governors Highway Safety Association for a recent report.

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So far, autonomous systems in the U.S. have been connected with three deaths — two related to Tesla vehicles and a third that occurred in March when a pedestrian was struck by a car being tested by Uber.

Pedestrian injuries are among the leading causes of pediatric deaths in the U.S..

May 14, 2018 • Pedestrian deaths have spiked in the U.S. since 2010.

Deaths of African Americans and Hispanics as pedestrians are disproportionately high: although African Americans represent only 12.7 percent of the total U.S. population, they compose 17.3 percent of total pedestrian fatalities, while Hispanics are 15.1 percent of the population but 18.6 percent of pedestrian fatalities.

But according to a long - term analysis of the data, of the 23,240 pedestrian deaths in the U.S. between 2010 and 2014, portable electronic devices were a factor in only 25 cases.

Each year across the United States, vehicle / pedestrian accidents cause more than 60,000 injuries and 4000 deaths in the U.S. Vehicles traveling at low speed can still cause a significant devastating injury when hitting a pedestrian that has no type of protection.

In 2014, 726 individuals were reported to be killed in bicycle accidents in the U.S. Like pedestrians, bicyclists have little protection during a collision with a vehicle which often results in serious injury or death.