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Reduce pedestrian deaths on public roads.

Target: 1.0 pedestrian death per 100,000 population.

Baseline: 1.9 pedestrian deaths per 100,000 population occurred on public roads in 1998.

Target setting method: 50 percent improvement. (Better than the best will be used when data are available.)

Data source: Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), DOT, NHTSA.

Total Population, 1998

Pedestrian Deaths
on Public Roads

Rate per 100,000

TOTAL

1.9

Race and ethnicity

American Indian or Alaska Native

DNC

Asian or Pacific Islander

DNC

Asian

DNA

Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander

DNC

Black or African American

DNA

White

DNA

 

Hispanic or Latino

DNC

Not Hispanic or Latino

DNC

Black or African American

DNC

White

DNC

Gender

Female

1.2

Male

2.7

Education level

Less than high school

DNC

High school graduate

DNC

At least some college

DNC

Select populations

Persons aged 70 years and older

3.9

DNA = Data have not been analyzed. DNC = Data are not collected. DSU = Data are statistically unreliable.