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.
Not exact matches
The number of traffic
fatalities in 2017 in New York City plummeted to the lowest level
since record - keeping started over a century ago, city officials said — a decline led by a steep drop in
pedestrian deaths, which fell by nearly a third from the year before.
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.
Since 1975,
pedestrian fatalities have fallen by half.
D.C.) Traffic
fatalities have been relatively stable
since the 1990s - around 5,000
pedestrian deaths annually, with 700 of those cyclists.
According to The Connexion, eight motorcyclists, three
pedestrians, one motorist and one cyclist have died in Paris
since the start of the year in traffic - related
fatalities.
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.
Fatal accidents involving a car and a
pedestrian accounted for 14 percent of crash - related
fatalities in the state of Utah in the year 2011, reaching the highest rate
since 2002.