Last month in ISHN’s August issue I wrote about New York City’s “Vision Zero” campaign to dramatically reduce traffic, bicycle and pedestrian injuries and deaths. So far in 2019 in NYC, 100 people have been killed in traffic crashes – including 51 pedestrians.
In 2016, 5,987 pedestrians were killed in traffic crashes in the United States -- one crash-related pedestrian death every 1.5 hours. Almost 129,000 pedestrians were treated in emergency departments for non-fatal crash-related injuries in 2015, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).