Deaths began climbing during the coronavirus pandemic ... Earlier this year, the Governors Highway Safety Association noted a spike in pedestrian deaths, calling it particularly concerning and ...

The numbers continued climbing through 2021 ... Though traffic deaths fell between 2022 and 2023, the number of pedestrian and cyclist deaths grew in 2022. A total of 7,522 pedestrians and ...

Lowe is part of a larger movement of safe streets advocates that's grown in recent years as pedestrian deaths in the U.S ... by drivers each year started climbing again around 2009.

“While the number of impaired driver deaths is coming down and the number of people not buckling up is coming down, the one thing that continues to increase are pedestrian deaths,” Cole sai ...

The warning signals in traffic studies — connecting bigger vehicle sizes to increased pedestrian deaths — have been around for years. But they were of no help to Cathy Leary, a 75-year-old ...

The rate of pedestrian deaths is increasing nationwide, and NC DOT data shows that North Carolina is no exception to that trend. The issue is particularly apparent in the Research Triangle.

Pedestrian deaths on American roads have risen by more than 70 percent since 2010, an increase that safe-streets advocates ascribe partly to our national love affair with trucks. Vehicles struck ...

Pedestrian deaths made up 13 percent of all traffic fatalities in 2010 but made up 17.6 percent in 2021. The number of other traffic fatalities for non-pedestrians only rose 25 percent during this ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Michael Harley is an author and a noted automotive industry expert. Florida earned a second-place podium finish, with 2.97 deaths per ...

Many communities are missing basic safety features, which advocates say could cut down on escalating pedestrian deaths. Long Island civic and business leaders gathered to call for safer streets at ...