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Pedestrain Safety

Keypoints


  • Thousands of pedestrians are killed every year on our nation's roads.
  • Speed, location, vehicle size, and alcohol are major risk factors.
  • Pedestrian injuries and deaths are preventable.

 

Facts

  • Over 8,000 pedestrians were killed on our nation's roads in crashes involving a motor vehicle in 2022. That's about one death every 64 minutes.
  • There were also an estimated 140,000 emergency department visits of pedestrians treated for non-fatal crash-related injuries in 2022.
  • One in five people who died in crashes in 2022 were pedestrians.


 

Risk factors

Speed, location, vehicle size, and alcohol are major risk factors.

  • Higher vehicle speeds increase both the likelihood of a pedestrian being struck by a car and the injury severity.23
  • Most pedestrian deaths (60% in 2021) occur on high-capacity urban roads that typically have posted speed limits of 45-55 miles per hour.
    • Many of these roads suffer from a design conflict between providing destinations (e.g., stores, restaurants) that people need to access and allowing high travel speeds that often prioritize vehicle movement.
    • For example, among 60 roads that had the most pedestrian deaths during 2001-2016, all were roads with adjacent commercial retail space, nearly all were multilane roads, and more than three-quarters had speed limits of 30 miles per hour or higher.5
  • SUVs can cause more harm to a person on foot when a crash occurs because of the vehicle's greater body weight and larger profile.6
  • Alcohol was involved for the driver and/or pedestrian in nearly half (48%) of crashes that resulted in a pedestrian death in 2022.7 In these crashes:
    • About one out of six (18%) involved a driver with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of at least 0.08 grams per deciliter (g/dL)—a level that is illegal for adults aged 21 and older in all U.S. states.
    • About one out of three (30%) involved a pedestrian with a BAC of at least 0.08 g/dL. 


People at increase risk

Some groups have higher risk for pedestrian death.


  • Adults ages 65 years and older accounted for about 17% of the U.S. population in 2022. However, this group accounted for 22% of all pedestrian deaths in 2022.
  • Non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native, and Black persons had the highest pedestrian death rates among all racial and ethnic groups in 2022. 

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What can be done

 

Local and state public health partners, other transportation-related agencies, and communities can consider working together to keep pedestrians safe by:

  • Using sources of public health data, like death certificates, hospital, and emergency department data, to gain a better understanding of pedestrian injury outcomes and prioritize interventions appropriately.
  • Considering evidence-based strategies to reduce alcohol-impaired driving.89
    • Partnering with agencies that prevent and treat substance misuse and use disorders to prioritize intervention placement and reduce impaired driving.
  • Considering evidence-based strategies that promote driving at safe speeds.910
  • Developing community-based coalitions that adopt the Safe System approach — a framework designed to protect everyone on the road.
  • Prioritizing safety over speed and evidence-based design strategies10 like lane narrowing, better lighting, and sidewalk installation during road planning processes.

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