Pedestrians

Details

• Alternative Title:
  Traffic Safety Facts 2008 Data
• Corporate Creators:
  National Center for Statistics and Analysis (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Pedestrian safety
  • Fatalities
  • Tables (Data)
  • Age
  • Alcohol use
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLES-Pedestrians ; NTL-REFERENCES AND DIRECTORIES-Statistics ; NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-SAFETY AND SECURITY
• Abstract:
  In 2008, 4,378 pedestrians were killed in traffic crashes in the United States — a decrease of 16 percent from the 5,228 pedestrians killed in 1998. On average, a pedestrian is killed in a traffic crash every 120 minutes and injured in a traffic crash every 8 minutes. There were 69,000 pedestrians injured in traffic crashes in 2008. Most pedestrian fatalities in 2008 occurred in urban areas (72%), at non-intersection locations (76%), in normal weather conditions (89%), and at night (70%). More than two-thirds (70%) of the pedestrians killed in 2008 were males. In 2008, the male pedestrian fatality rate per 100,000 population was 2.04 — more than double the rate for females (0.86 per 100,000 population). In 2008, the male pedestrian injury rate per 100,000 population was 24, compared with 21 for females
• Format:
  PDF
• Alternate URL:
  http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/ped_bike/crash_facts/
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/6413/dot_6413_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.22 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b0ee4b053e47927919781e4168c219493817e9082a26082c1383e0c678550edf