Florida tops record of most automotive vs. pedestrian fatalities

Florida is essentially the most harmful place for a pedestrian to stroll, with two cities within the high 5 of locations with the most individuals struck and killed by automobiles, a report has revealed.

A complete of seven,265 folks died whereas strolling in 2020 through the peak of the pandemic, though there have been fewer drivers on the highway. This can be a 4.7% improve from the yr earlier than, based on the Governors Freeway Security Affiliation. It's the highest quantity in 40 years.

Older adults and folks strolling in low-income neighborhoods had the best fatality price, at 3.3 folks per 1,000. That is 3 times the speed of somebody making greater than $93,000 per yr, based on a report compiled by Good Development America.

“This epidemic continues rising worse as a result of our nation’s streets are harmful by design, designed primarily to maneuver automobiles rapidly on the expense of maintaining everybody secure,” the report learn. “The end in 2020 was a major improve in all site visitors fatalities, even with much less driving general as a result of pandemic.”

For the second yr in a row, the Daytona Seaside space in Florida topped the record of fatalities. This was adopted by Albuquerque, New Mexico; Memphis, Tennessee; the better Tampa Bay space in Florida; and Charleston, South Carolina. The knowledge was compiled between 2016 and 2016.

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Not one of the cities within the high 20 improved their numbers from the final report, which spanned from 2011 to 2015.

The deadliest states as an entire, in chronological order, are New Mexico, Florida, South Carolina, Arizona, and Delaware.

Though automotive culture-obsessed California was not on the high of the record, it does have one distinction: It’s the one state with three cities within the high 10. These are Bakersfield, Stockton, and Fresno — all massive cities in Central California’s farming belt.

The research additionally discovered that folks of colour, notably Native People and black People, died at larger charges than another group at 4.8 instances per 100,000. The most secure group was Asian/Pacific Islanders at 1.2 instances per 100,000.