Florida Pedestrian Accident Statistics

Pedestrian accidents showed a decrease of the past four decades, but there is compelling evidence that is beginning to point to a rise once again. Fourteen percent of all crash deaths in the United States were pedestrians in 2013, which is a clear indication that pedestrian accidents are more common than society realizes. With walking populations more dense in urban areas, ito only makes sense that roughly seventy percent of pedestrian accidents occur in urban areas. Death rates among pedestrians hit by motor vehicles rise as age rises, and the faster car was going at the time of impact is directly related to death rates.

Whether more people are relying on walking to get around their city, or there are more distracted drivers on the road, pedestrian accidents continue in Florida and the entire United States, regardless of the safety precautions put in place by the government. While society is trying to bring awareness to the need for caution when considering pedestrians, the rate at which people are dying from crashes with motor vehicles remains relatively unchanged.

National Pedestrian Fatality Statistics

41,259 people were killed in an accident involving a motor vehicle. Out of this number, 4, 699 were walkers.
42,836 people were in crash related deaths back in 2004. Out of this number, 4,675 people in the United States were pedestrians. This made up eleven percent of the total people killed in crashes that year.
32,719 people were killed in the year 2013 by motor vehicle accidents.
4,735 of the people involved in motor vehicle crashes were pedestrians killed. This number accounted for fourteen percent of all deaths involving accidents that year.
Men were killed more than two thirds of the time as pedestrians over women in 2013.
Fatalities where alcohol was a factor occurred in forty nine percent of the cases in 2013.
Pedestrians met an average age of 46 years old, as those killed by drivers of motor vehicles.
People killed in car accidents in 2013 had an average age of 36.
Twenty percent of the pedestrians killed in 2013 were children under the age of fifteen.
Children ten to fourteen years old accounted for nine percent of the pedestrian related injuries.
Children accounted for five percent of the total people killed in pedestrian related accidents in 2014.
Pedestrians sixty five years and older were about ten percent of the people injured.

Factors that Contributed to Pedestrian Accidents

Accidents in urban environments accounted for seventy three percent of all fatal accidents involving a pedestrian.
Night and evening is the most prevalent time for accidents to occur, accounting for seventy-two percent of all accidents.
The evening hours of six to nine at night accounted for twenty six percent of the total accidents.
During the weekday, pedestrian accidents occurred the most in the evening hours.
Weekend rates for pedestrian fatalities in the evening are similar, with a marked increase from nine pm until midnight.
Darkness was a factor in more than seventy percent of all the pedestrian related deaths reported in 2013.
Distracted driving is a major contributing factor in all pedestrian related deaths.