Pedestrian accidents are much more common than most people think. More than 110,000 pedestrian accidents occur in the U. S. each year, causing approximately 59,000 injuries to pedestrians and over 4,000 fatalities. A pedestrian accident happens once every eight minutes in the US, and a fatal pedestrian accident occurs every 88 minutes.
More than 75 percent of all pedestrian accidents occur in urban areas like Atlanta. Surprisingly, nearly 90 percent of these accidents occur in normal weather without the rain, fog, or snow that people would be quick to determine as the cause of the majority of pedestrian accidents.
