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In 2013, Los Angeles County saw over 4,721 pedestrian injuries and 211 pedestrian fatalities as a result of motor vehicle accidents.

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Police say a video from the Uber self - driving car that struck and killed a woman on Sunday shows her moving in front of it suddenly, a factor that investigators are likely to focus on as they assess the performance of the technology in the first pedestrian fatality involving an autonomous vehicle.

Queens Boulevard, once known as the «Boulevard of Death» in NYC tabloids, has not seen a pedestrian fatality in three years, and has become a centerpiece of the mayor's Vision Zero traffic safety campaign.

This high level of involvement is particularly meaningful for child pedestrians as the proportion of child pedestrian fatalities is significantly high relative to adults,» she adds.

Even outdoor use from a safety perspective needs highlighting as pedestrian fatalities have reportedly jumped due to walking whilst texting and browsing.

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.

One recent project examined the locations of pedestrian fatalities and used other data sources such as roadway characteristics and sociodemographic information to better inform where pedestrian risk is occurring at the neighborhood level.

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.

Vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists, still account for almost half of Europe's road fatalities and bicyclists» deaths are on the rise in many countries.

But the high number of pedestrian fatalities, both locally and nationally, is typically viewed as a transit, rather than a public health, problem.

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.

Side guards will not protect against all of these issues, and when these issues are better addressed even without the side guards as in Tokyo, you can have a pedestrian and cycling fatality rate that is one - quarter.

With pedestrian fatalities in such states as Georgia, which is up 37 percent over the past two years, it's clear that this is a crucial and all - too overlooked area of personal injury law.

Especially in regards to pedestrians, the size and damage capability of these delivery trucks may result in permanently debilitating injuries, such as broken bones, partial paralysis or necessary amputations, if not outright fatalities.

«Figure 1 contains information on four environmental characteristics (land use, pedestrian location, light condition, and time of day and season) where / when pedestrian fatalities occurred in 2013: ■ More occurred in urban areas (73 %) than rural areas (27 %).1 ■ More occurred at non-intersections (69 %) than at intersections (20 %) for pedestrian location (10 % was other locations such as parking lanes / zones, bicycle lanes, shoulders / roadsides, sidewalks, medians / crossing islands, driveway accesses, shareduse paths / trails, non-trafficway areas, and other).

Of all the kinds of accidents involving motor vehicles, it should come as no surprise that those involving pedestrians most often result in a fatality.

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.

Additionally, there are certain locations more likely to be accident sites, with the vast majority of pedestrian fatalities occurring in high - density urban areas such as downtown areas or within metropolitan area borders.

The recent mishap involving a self - driving Uber that led to one of the first pedestrian fatalities caused by a self - driving vehicle (albeit with a human as the backup in the vehicle) and the crash of the Tesla vehicle with Autopilot engaged has raised questions on the safety and regulations governing autonomous driving.