Recent Streetsblog USA posts about pedestrian deaths

Advocates: It’s Time To Tell NHTSA to Make Cars Safer For Walkers

By Mike McGinn | Apr 28, 2022 | No Comments

For the first time in U.S. history, federal regulators are taking steps to help ensure vehicles are safer for those outside cars. Here are a few important aspects of this complex issue and how you can comment.

Post-Pandemic Period Proves Perilous to Pedestrians

By Gersh Kuntzman | Apr 7, 2022 | No Comments

The decade-long pedestrian death crisis has worsened, with a double-digit percentage increase in deaths caused by U.S. drivers — and experts are blaming it on speeding, distracted driving, larger vehicles and roads that prioritize car drivers over everyone else.

Feds: Megacar Owners Actually Drove More In 2020 Than 2019

By Kea Wilson | Feb 7, 2022 | No Comments

The owners of the largest passenger cars on the road actually drove more in 2020 than they did in 2019, according to new data that can also explain why road deaths surged so sharply during the early days of the pandemic.

STUDY: Automatic Braking Doesn’t Work Well on Dark Streets

By Kea Wilson | Feb 4, 2022 | No Comments

And that's where more than one-third of all walking deaths currently happen.

An image from a World Day of Remembrance Vigil. Source: Families for Safe Streets

Latest Attack Shows Our Failure to Prevent Cars Being Used as Weapons

By Streetsblog | Nov 24, 2021 | No Comments

Policy, culture, and environment create conditions that all too often permit such crimes — and by failing to address those conditions, advocates argue, we practically ensure that such atrocities will continue to happen.

Each pair of shoes in this demonstration represents a life lost to traffic violence. Via Families for Safe Streets

Almost No One in Congress Has Signed Onto National ‘Vision Zero’ Pledge

By Kea Wilson | Nov 19, 2021 | No Comments

"Honestly, this should be an easy first step," said one activist.

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