This difference was greatest for fatal injuries involving air transportion. A total of 5,652 persons were killed in pedestrian incidents, and a resultant 195,586 years of potential life were lost. The rates for white and black females showed a similar difference.
Deaths involving pedestrians represent the second largest category of motor vehicle deaths.
Two-thirds of all pedestrian deaths occur in urban areas. For persons killed in motor vehicle crashes, the percentage of elevated BAC declines after age 40. Reductions of motor vehicle occupant and pedestrian fatalities depend on a variety of interventions designed to alter the human and environmental factors affecting motor vehicle crashes. Interventions that could reduce human factors in motor vehicle crashes include public awareness and legal enforcement actions designed to deter alcohol use by drivers and pedestrians and special educational efforts directed toward these two groups. Studies of the cost-effectiveness of possible engineering changes, such as altering vehicle and highway design and constructing barriers to physically separate pedestrians and vehicles, may reveal some other important interventions.