Sentences with phrase «increased pedestrian fatalities»

The increased pedestrian fatalities seen starting in 2010 supported the idea of «distracted walking» becoming a growing problem.

Philadelphia's initiative is supported by a $ 525,000 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) grant initiative to help address a three year trend of increased pedestrian fatalities.

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That was primarily driven by increases in pedestrian, motorcyclist, and cyclist fatalities, the NHTSA found, which were attributed to the economy's spring - back and lower gas prices.

Pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities have been gradually increasing since 2009.

At the same time, bicyclist and pedestrian injuries and fatalities have steadily increased since 2009.

Over the past 10 years (2006 to 2015) the proportion of pedestrian, bicyclist and other non-occupant fatalities has increased from 13 % to 18 %.

Pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities have increased in recent years, and in 2016 5,987 pedestrians and 840 bicyclists died on our roadways.

The Safer People, Safer Streets initiative launched a high - profile collaborative, intermodal effort to help improve pedestrian and bicycle safety at the local level, in response to data showing increasing fatalities.

The 2015 fatality data released in August 2016 by NHTSA showed further increases in pedestrian and bicycle fatalities Nation - wide, which confirms the need to continue DOT's work on this issue.

In FY 2015, DOT launched the Safer People, Safer Streets initiative to increase walking and biking as a mode of transportation and reduce pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities, and worked with mayors around the country in implementing this initiative.

Bad thing: bicyclist and pedestrian fatalities have increased slightly, representing 16.3 % of all traffic deaths in 2012 compared to 2011's 15.6 %.

An earlier version of this story stated that there was a 42 percent increase in pedestrian deaths in Los Angeles since the mayor launched an initiative to eliminate traffic fatalities two years ago.

«[t] he seven states (Alaska, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, Washington) and DC that legalized recreational use of marijuana between 2012 and 2016 reported a collective 16.4 percent increase in pedestrian fatalities for the first six months of 2017 versus the first six months of 2016, whereas all other states reported a collective 5.8 percent decrease in pedestrian fatalities.»

It should also be noted that even the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), in its report, suggests that there might be a correlation between traffic deaths and cellphone use, saying «a more recent factor contributing to the increase in pedestrian fatalities may be the growing use of smart phones by all road users, which can be a significant source of distraction for both drivers and pedestrians.»

This week, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety released a new report looking at the increases in pedestrian motor vehicle crash fatalities during 2009 — 16.

Perhaps in the light of the increasing numbers of pedestrians and cyclists in the roads, the increasing number of fatalities, and the newfound popularity of trucks as weapons, it is time to reconsider our urban road designs and make protected bike lanes the new normal on busy streets.

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It's the end of a trend Massachusetts drivers and pedestrians would probably like to have seen continue, but after 7 years of declines, the number of traffic fatalities in the U.S. increased in 2012.

Pedestrian fatality numbers in 2016 increased for the second consecutive year.

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Pedestrian fatalities are higher in urban areas due to the increased volume of traffic.

The Governors» Highway Safety Association estimates that the number of pedestrians killed in 2015 increased by around 10 percent as compared with 2014, which is the largest annual increase in pedestrian fatalities since the federal government began collecting accident data forty years ago.