Pedestrian safety has been a concern ever since the first recorded road death in Great Britain in 1896. There have been concerted efforts by successive governments to promote safety messages, educating pedestrians and motorists about risk on the road. Whatever campaign we grew up with as children, the messages have always been the same: take care when crossing the road. Quite rightly the focus has always been on child pedestrian safety with the desire to ingrain core principles at an early age believing these will serve us well though life. The purpose of carrying out this study is to provide a new level of insight into the problems faced by pedestrians on Great Britain’s highways using multiple data sources, most significantly the STATS19 dataset. Unless specified, the study uses data from the last six years (2006 — 2011) obtained from MAST Online and provides an in-depth review of the key factors involved in pedestrian injuries: When, Where, What, Why, Who. (Author/publisher)
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