Spotlight on Highway Safety Pedestrian Traffic Fatalities by State - JANUARY - JUNE 2023 PRELIMINARY DATA

For the third year in a row, GHSA is publishing this analysis of the data from the first six months of the year prior to its full-year analysis, which will be published later this year. [...] Spotlight on Highway Safety | Governors Highway Safety Association | ghsa.org | @GHSAHQ 3 Pedestrian Traffic Fatalities by State 2023 PRELIMINARY DATA EARLY ESTIMATES OF 2023 DATA If GHSA’s projection of 3,373 pedestrians killed in motor vehicle collisions in the first half of 2023 holds true, this represents 153 fewer pedestrian deaths when compared to the same period during the. [...] Note that 2020 was an atypical year due to the impact of the pandemic on travel patterns, particularly for the first half of the year. [...] In 2023, eight states reported the second consecutive decline in pedestrian fatalities for the first half of the year. [...] This is a 4% decrease from 2022 and the first decline since the onset of the pandemic, which saw a small drop largely explained by fewer people on the road in early 2020.