Government Grants to Help Reduce Danger to Pedestrians
It’s been getting more dangerous to walk in the United States, but government grants may help ease the situation.
In 2012, the last year for which complete data are available, 4,743 pedestrians were killed in traffic crashes. That total represented 14% of all traffic deaths that year; a decade earlier, pedestrian deaths had been 11% of all road fatalities. The 2012 total was a 6% increase over the previous year.