New car technology may be hit or miss during the daytime, but at night, it is almost always hit — and it’s specifically pedestrians who are the victims. Of the pedestrians killed in 2018, 76 percent were hit after dark, according to the NHTSA data. AAA’s test of high-tech detection...
Comparison of the pedestrian risk curves from the different datasets shows that the risk of pedestrian fatality is generally higher for the dataset from the 1970s, indicating that the probability of pedestrians being killed when hit by the front of a car has reduced over t...
Beg buttons give drivers who hit pedestrians a built-in excuse—he didn’t have the walk sign, officer!—empower cities to crack down on “jaywalking,” and contribute to the overall sense that cars rule the road. And if a pedestrian isn’t aware that they won’t get permission to ...
Ann O'Hanlon
Within an hour, we’d seen a man with a cane nearly get hit while shuffling across the road. Then Day herself, crossing with the signal, was almost struck by a car taking a right on red. “This is why people don’t even cross at the main crosswalk,” she told me after recovering...
Chicago Crash Browser - Find where bicyclists and pedestrians were hit by cars in Chicago. Bike 2015 Plan Tracker - Monitoring the status of implementing the 153 strategies in the Bike 2015 Plan Chicago Bike Guide app - The Chicago Bike Guide is the best way to navigate Chicago's vast networ...
Methods Using national mortality statistics, we identified fatalities in England 2007–2012 among: pedestrians who were walking for travel (whether they were hit by a vehicle or fell); cyclists who were travelling; and drivers of cars or vans. We examined 'secondary causes' of death for those ...