'We have an epidemic of people dying when they are walking, and we have drivers that are killing people that shouldn't be killed,' said Pam Schadel Fischer, of the Governors Highway Safety Association.
Walking can be a deadly activity, and it seems to be getting more dangerous every year.
Officials theorize that drivers who did take to the roads during the peak of the pandemic took advantage of fewer other drivers to speed and engage in other risky behavior, and that hasn’t changed as traffic has increased back to normal levels. And pedestrians — who don’t have a metal box around them — are in more danger than motorists.
The study shows many of the deaths take place in dark areas at night, a total of 76% of the fatalities in 2020. The number of daytime pedestrian deaths remained relatively stable at between 1,068 and 1,311 from 2010 to 2020, but deaths after dark rose from 3,030 to 4,981.
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