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Literature review on vehicle travel speeds and pedestrian injuries
[dataset]
1999
PsycEXTRA Dataset
unpublished
In the U.S. during 1995, there were about 84,000 pedestrian injuries and 5,585 pedestrian fatalities (NHTSA, 1996), for an overall ratio of 15.0 injured pedestrians for every fatality. This ratio varied substantially as a function of posted speed limits, from 57.1 injuries per fatality on roadways with posted limits of 25 miles per hour or less to just 0.3 injuries per fatality for posted speed limits of 60 mph or higher. While posted speeds are not necessarily the same as travel speeds or
doi:10.1037/e446312008-001
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