JANUARY 2005 - Accident Reconstruction Newsletter

Pedestrian Roadway Fatalities

This report was written to provide insight into the possible causes for pedestrian highway fatalities involving a single motor vehicle (single vehicle crash, SV crash), which not surprisingly account for over 90 percent of pedestrian fatalities from motor vehicle crashes. The analysis was based on 1998-2001 data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), a census of all fatal motor vehicle crashes.

Almost 175,000 pedestrians died in all motor vehicle crashes with over 162,000 pedestrians killed in single vehicle crashes between 1975 and 2001. As a long-term trend pedestrian fatalities have decreased from a high of 8,096 fatalities in 1979 to a low of 4,763 in 2000. Pedestrian fatalities have decreased each year between 1995 (from 5,584) and 2000, a reduction of 15 percentage points. In 2001, the pedestrian fatalities increased slightly (119 fatalities, 2.5 percentage point) to 4,882 fatalities, the first increase since 1995. However, in 2001, pedestrians accounted for about 12 percent of all highway fatalities in motor vehicle crashes and 85 percent of all non-occupant fatalities in motor vehicle crashes. In 1979, pedestrians accounted for about 16 percent of all fatalities in motor vehicle crashes and 88 percent of all non-occupant fatalities in motor vehicle crashes.

This report does not analyze all variables within the FARS database and other data sources. Also, this analysis does not examine injury data from the General Estimates System (GES), which reports on persons injured resulting from motor vehicle crashes. Further analyses need to be undertaken by examining other variables within FARS and GES that may provide additional information describing other factors associated with pedestrians in motor vehicle crashes. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) plans to conduct these analyses and report the findings.

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• Pedestrian Safety 2003
• Bicycle Safety 2003
• Pedestrian Roadway Fatalities
• Electronic Accident Forms Boost Reporting Efficiency; Data Can Be Linked With Records Systems
• Children Safety 2003
• Traffic Safety Facts 2003 - Complete Guide
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