NYMTC Regional Pedestrian Safety Study - New York Metropolitan ...
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Table 2.3 <strong>Pedestrian</strong> Fatalities in <strong>NYMTC</strong> Region from 1994 to 2004<br />
<strong>Pedestrian</strong> Fatalities per year<br />
Ten year<br />
County or region 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 change<br />
Nassau 36 31 19 33 42 50 33 36 48 34 33 -8.3%<br />
Putnam 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 2 2 3 2 0.0%<br />
Rockland 8 4 1 5 3 13 4 3 6 8 3 -62.5%<br />
Suffolk 25 50 29 32 43 35 37 33 22 51 51 104.0%<br />
Westchester 37 17 14 10 21 9 13 10 18 13 15 -59.5%<br />
Suburban counties 108 102 65 80 109 108 87 84 96 109 104 -3.7%<br />
Bronx 46 36 38 29 19 32 28 33 29 23 31 -32.6%<br />
Brooklyn 87 72 81 88 72 69 78 62 60 59 51 -41.4%<br />
Manhattan 61 66 59 57 49 64 49 49 40 51 43 -29.5%<br />
Queens 57 66 51 71 55 53 45 52 43 46 34 -40.4%<br />
Staten Island 2 12 9 9 1 7 7 14 10 9 10 400.0%<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City 253 252 238 254 196 225 207 210 182 188 169 -33.2%<br />
<strong>NYMTC</strong> Region 361 354 303 334 305 333 294 294 278 297 273 -24.4%<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> State 480 472 439 429 402 441 381 401 375 378 360 -25.0%<br />
Source of Data: FARS.<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City Department of Transportation has kept data on pedestrian fatalities since 1910;<br />
see Figure 2.3. The number has been in decline since 1929, with an almost steady annual<br />
decrease from 1989 to 2005. There are small discrepancies between the NYCDOT and FARS<br />
data on pedestrian fatalities per year, which may be due to the date at which the data was<br />
recorded; seriously injured persons who die later are added to the number of fatalities up to a<br />
given time, which differs between agencies.<br />
Table 2.4 shows the pedestrian actions preceding a fatal crash for the <strong>NYMTC</strong> region according<br />
to the 2004 FARS database. This information was compiled from police reports. While it may<br />
not be comprehensive nor totally accurate due to the pedestrian being unable to be interviewed, it<br />
provides potential insight into the pedestrian fatality. Given the small numbers of fatal crashes in<br />
the FARS database for the individual counties, the differences between <strong>New</strong> <strong>York</strong> City and the<br />
suburban counties are not significant.<br />
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