At some point in the day, everyone is a pedestrian.
Whether you walk your child to school or walk from your vehicle’s parking lot to the office, each of us walk where vehicles travel.
In 2021 there were 7,388 pedestrians killed in traffic crashes, a 12.5 percent increase from the 6,565 pedestrians’ fatalities in 2020.
That is the highest since 1981 when 7,837 pedestrians died in traffic crashes.
On average, a pedestrian was killed every…
