The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has released its 2014 Summary of Motor Vehicle Crashes at http://1.usa.gov/291QBWd. The portion of non-occupant (pedestrian, bicyclists, and other cyclists) fatalities increased from 13 percent to 18 percent between 2005 and 2014.
According to the report, on average, a pedestrian is killed in a motor vehicle crash every 108 minutes, and one is injured about every 8 minutes. Using 2010 data, the most recent available, the tangible economic cost for pedestrians’ crashes is $11.5 billion and for bicyclists’ crashes is $4.4 billion. The comprehensive costs, including quality of life factors, are $65 billion for pedestrians’ crashes and $21.7 billion for bicyclists’ crashes.
