Traffic Accidents with Pedestrians in New York City
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- 80% of serious accidents with pedestrians in NYC involve male drivers
- "(Fifty-seven percent of New York City vehicles are registered to men.)" - NYT
- 79% of crashes that kill or seriously injure pedestrians involve private vehicles, not taxis, trucks and buses
- "Throughout the city, 79 percent of the serious crashes involved private passenger cars; 13 percent involved taxis or livery cabs; 4 percent involved trucks; and 3 percent involved buses." - NYT
- NYC’s traffic fatality rate is about a quarter of the national rate and less than half the rate in the next 10 largest U.S. cities.
- Traffic crashes cost the City’s economy $4.29 billion annually
- Pedestrians are 10 times more likely to die than a motor vehicle occupant in the event of a crash
- Pedestrians accounted for 52% of traffic fatalities from 2005-2009
- Driver inattention was cited in nearly 36% of crashes resulting in pedestrians killed or seriously injured
- 27% of fatal pedestrian crashes involved driver failure to yield
- Pedestrian-vehicle crashes involving unsafe speeds are twice as deadly as other crashes
- Serious pedestrian crashes are about two-thirds deadlier on major street corridors than on smaller local streets
- Manhattan has four times as many pedestrian killed or severely injured per mile of street compared to the other four boroughs
- 43% of pedestrians killed in Manhattan lived in other boroughs or outside New York City
- About 40 percent of pedestrian crashes in New York occurred between 3 p.m. and 9 p.m., the study found; nationally, most crashes occur overnight. Still, collisions in New York that take place in the early morning were more likely to result in a death rather than an injury." - NYT
[edit] Source
The New York Times, Deadliest for Walkers: Male Drivers, Left Turns, 8/16/2010
NYC Dept of Transportation, The New York City Pedestrian Safety Study & Action Plan
