Tag: Pedestrians
Why Are So Many American Pedestrians Dying at Night?
U.S. Pedestrian Deaths
Around 1980, pedestrian deaths in the United States began to decline.
Thirty years later, that progress reversed. And fatalities have risen ever since, with no clear reason.
Embedded within this trend is an even more curious pattern that could provide some clues about what has changed.
Longer crossing times welcomed as eight pedestrians are killed weekly
The traffic safety campaign group Road Angel has welcomed proposals to increase the amount of time pedestrians can cross at crossings in England.
The idea was proposed by Active Travel England (ATE), and will see the “green man crossing time” increased from six to seven seconds in order to help elderly or disabled pedestrians cross roads safely.
Gary Digva, founder of Road Angel, explained how extending the length of time pedestrians can cross in will help to improve road safety.
When Cars Kill Pedestrians | The New Yorker
A boy’s death launches a movement to end pedestrian and cyclist fatalities in New York City and beyond.
On the afternoon of October 8, 2013, in the last moments of his life, twelve-year-old Sammy Cohen Eckstein, of Park Slope, Brooklyn, was walking to after-school soccer practice near his apartment on Prospect Park West when he lost control of his ball. It rolled into the busy southbound street, and he went after it.