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Vehicle Interactions with Pedestrians

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Motor vehicle collisions resulted in 5,307 pedestrian fatalities in the United States during 1997.1 Although this number has fallen over 20% from nearly 7,000 in 1988 as shown in Fig. 22.1, pedestrian fatalities are still a significant problem, accounting for 13% of the nation’s total traffic fatalities. This problem is even larger in many other countries such as Japan and the United Kingdom, where nearly 30% of traffic fatalities are pedestrians. Other nonoccupants such as motorcyclists and pedal cyclists account for an additional 30% of traffic fatalities in Japan and 15% in the United Kingdom.2

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Saul, R.A., Edlefson, J.F., Jarrett, K.L., Marous, J.R. (2002). Vehicle Interactions with Pedestrians. In: Nahum, A.M., Melvin, J.W. (eds) Accidental Injury. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21787-1_22

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