While fewer in number, pedestrian crashes involving older adults are devastating to their victims. As a general rule, older adults are struck while crossing streets in crosswalks or by drivers making turning movements through crosswalks.
Older adults are very law-abiding pedestrians.
Most older adults struck are in good physical condition. They are out on foot, walking for business or pleasure or to maintain their health. Most have many years of healthy life ahead. Still, they are fragile. Being struck by a car is often a death sentence.