Department of Transportation issued its Pedestrian Safety Action Plan in response to the rising variety of pedestrian fatalities. It confirmed that from 2010 to 2019, complete traffic fatalities grew 9 percent however pedestrian traffic fatalities rose forty four %, from four,302 to six,205. Pedestrian traffic fatalities were thirteen % of all visitors fatalities in 2010 and by 2019 that proportion grew to 17 p.c.
