Georgia Injury Law Blog
An analysis of data by the Governor’s Highway Safety Association finds that while pedestrian accident death numbers have dropped since last year, the final tally is still a close to 50% increase over a decade ago.
According to the analysis by the Governor’s Highway Safety Association, a total of 334 people were killed in pedestrian accidents during the first 6 months of 2024. That was a drop of 2.6% from the same period of time the previous year. There were 88 fewer deaths during the first 6 months of 2024 compared to the first 6 months of 2023.
That is the good news. The bad news is that this was an increase of 48% from the same period a decade earlier. Between January and June 2024, there were a staggering 1,072 more pedestrian accident fatalities compared to the period between January and June 2014.