How dangerous is pedestrian red light crossing?

There are no exact data about the crash risk of pedestrian red light crossing. What we do know is that 10% of the registered pedestrian fatalities (in 2015) resulted from red light negation by pedestrians or their crash opponents (SWOV, BRON).

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Pedestrians

A pedestrian fall or collision is only a road crash (pedestrian crash) when a moving vehicle is involved. Between 2010 and 2019, an annual… Meer

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SWOV (2020). Pedestrians. SWOV fact sheet, July 2020. SWOV, The Hague.

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