The most recent pedestrian death occurred Tuesday night and involved a 71-year-old woman who was struck and killed by a car as she was trying to walk across the street in the 6600 block of Hillcroft Street. Witnesses told investigators the woman had just exited a Metro bus before the fatal crash.
In the past two years, the most pedestrian deaths in a single month occurred December 2022 when 26 people were killed. From January 2021 to December 2022 there were 358 pedestrian deaths, an average of nearly 15 a month, data show.
People age 65 and older accounted for around 17 percent of the U.S. population in 2020, however, the group represented 20 percent of all pedestrian deaths during the same year, according to the CDC.
One in five pedestrians killed in crashes in 2020, were children younger than 15, roughly 20.4 percent. The same year, 17 percent of pedestrians killed in motor vehicle accidents were age 15 and older, according to the CDC.
