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S2E1 - Rebecca Sanders and Robert Schneider, Fatal Pedestrian Crash Locations and Characteristics

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A Study on Traffic Fatalities in the United States

Bob Greene: Kelsey and Tara have done a lot of work on traffic deaths in general, pedestrian deaths and bicyclist deaths. They were motivated by seeing the increase in fatalities over the last decade. More than 50% increase from 2009 to 2018. We decided that we were going to look for fatality hotspots that had at least six pedestrian fatalities occur during an eight-year period over 1,000 meters. This is fundamental to trying to do work that impacts people's lives and ultimately saves lives.

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