More than 110,000 pedestrians are injured each year. 486 pedestrians are killed by automobiles each year. 4 pedestrians are killed by automobiles every 3 days. 19 pedestrians are killed by automobiles each year. A pedestrian is killed by an automobile every 3 weeks.
Senior citizens are twice as likely to be killed by automobiles than the general population.
A third to a half of pedestrian fatalities occur on neighborhood streets. The Highway Capacity Manual defines pedestrians as flow interruptions . Pedestrian safety is treated as low priority. One in seven people killed in car crashes are pedestrians. Pedestrian safety is a major public health and safety problem.