A pedestrian, as defined for this fact sheet, is any person on foot, walking, running, jogging, hiking, sitting, or lying down who is involved in a motor vehicle traffic crash. A traffic crash is defined as an incident that involved one or more motor vehicles where at least one vehicle was in transport and the crash originated on a public traffic way, such as a road or highway. Crashes that occurred on private property, including parking lots and driveways, are excluded. In this fact sheet, the 2014 pedestrian information is presented as follows: * Overview * Environmental Characteristics * Time of Day and Day of Week * Age * Gender * Alcohol * Vehicle Type and Impact Point * Fatalities by State * Fatalities by City * Important Safety Reminders. In 2014 there were 4,884 pedestrians killed (Table 1) and an estimated 65,000 injured (Table 2) in traffic crashes in the United States. A total of 4,813 traffic crashes (Table 4) each had one or more pedestrian fatalities. On average, a pedestrian was killed every 2 hours and injured every 8 minutes in traffic crashes. Table 1 presents a distribution of pedestrian fatalities as a percentage of total motor vehicle fatalities in the last 10 years. The 4,884 pedestrian fatalities in 2014 were a 2-percent increase from 4,779 pedestrian fatalities in 2013. In 2014, 15 percent of all traffic fatalities and an estimated 3 percent of those injured in traffic crashes (Table 2) were pedestrians. (Author/publisher)
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