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Recent Pedestrian Accident Statistics
Pedestrians are highly vulnerable to being victims in motor vehicles. Consider the following statistics from 2007 involving pedestrian deaths in the US 2007.
- Number of pedestrians injured: 70,000
This means that a pedestrian is injured every 7.5 minutes - Number of pedestrians killed: 4,654 This means that a pedestrian is killed every 111 minutes
- Seventy percent of pedestrian fatalities are male
- Forty eight percent of pedestrian fatalities occured on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday
- Seventy one percent of pedestrian fatalities occured in urban areas
- Sixty four percent of pedestrian fatalities occured between 6 pm and midnight
- Ninety one percent of pedestrian fatalities occured during normal weather conditions
- Almost eighteen percent of pedestrian fatalities involved a hit and run
- Seventy one percent of pedestrian fatalities occured in urban areas
- Twenty percent of children under 15 killed in motor vehicle accident are pedestrians
- Over twenty percent of children killed in motor vehicle accidents between 5 and 9 years old were pedestrians
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