According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 4,743 pedestrians were killed in 2012 and an estimated 76,000 were injured in traffic crashes, a 6% increase over 2011. This translates to an average of one pedestrian being killed every two hours in traffic crashes and one being injured every seven minutes.
The NHTSA defines a pedestrian as "someone on foot who is walking, running, hiking, jogging, sitting or lying down" who is involved in a motor vehicle crash that originates on a public traffic way. Crashes that occurred on private property such as driveways were not included in the NHTSA figures.
Pedestrians aged 65 and older were most likely to be involved in an accident, accounting for 20% of all pedestrian deaths and 9% of the injuries. Children between the ages of 5-15 were the next most frequent victims with one in every five killed in traffic accidents.
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