
THURSDAY, April 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- America's roads are getting ever more dangerous for pedestrians, a new study finds.During the first six months of 2021, there was a 17% increase in pedestrian deaths in the United States — and that just continues the sharp increase seen over the previous 10 years, the researchers noted.There were over 3,400 pedestrian deaths nationwide in the first six months of 2021, which is 507 more than during the same period in 2020.That translated into just over one pedestrian death per 100,000 people during the first six months of 2021, compared with 0.90 per 100,000 in both 2019 and 2020, the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) analysis showed. The overall number of pedestrian deaths rose from 4,457 in 2011 to 6,516 in 2020, a 46% increase,...