Transportation
The Most Dangerous U.S. Cities for Pedestrians
Between 2003 and 2012, 47,025 pedestrians were killed by drivers in the United States.
You might call it an ongoing unnatural disaster.
Between 2003 and 2012, 47,025 pedestrians were killed by drivers in the United States. To put that in perspective, that’s 16 times the number of fatalities caused in the same period by the natural disasters – floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, and the like – that get so much more attention. An additional 676,000 were injured, the equivalent of one person every eight minutes.