Bike-Pedestrian Safety

Pedestrian Statistics

This information is compiled and maintained by the Illinois Department of Transportation or the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. It is available on our web site as a service to you.

Illinois in 2008:

Nationally in 2008

4,518 pedestrians were killed and 60,000 injured in traffic crashes.
An average of one pedestrian is killed in a traffic crash every 113 minutes and one is injured every 8 minutes.
Alcohol was involved (either for the driver or the pedestrian) in 48% of the traffic crashes that resulted in pedestrian fatalities. Of the pedestrians involved, 36% were intoxicated with a BAC of .08 or greater.
Children age 15 and younger accounted for 7 percent of the pedestrian fatalities and older persons (age 65+) accounted for 18 percent of all pedestrian fatalities.
Nearly one half (48%) of all pedestrian fatalities occurred on Friday (16%), Saturday (18%) and Sunday (14%).
Thirty-eight percent (38%) of the 316 young (under age 16) pedestrian fatalities occurred in crashes between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Bicycle Statistics

This information is compiled and maintained by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. It is available on our web site as a service to you.

Illinois in 2008:

Nationally in 2008:

There were 716 bicyclists killed and 52,000 were injured.
The average age of a bicyclist killed was 32.
Individuals under age 16 accounted for 13% of all bicyclists killed and 25% of those injured in traffic crashes.
12% of the bicyclists killed in traffic crashes were between 5 and 15 years old.
Alcohol was involved in 37%of the bicyclist fatalities.
69% of bicycle deaths occurred in urban areas, and 64% occurred at non-intersection locations.
Bicyclists fatalities are more likely to occur in the months of June and September between the hours of 5:00pm and 9:00pm.
The fatality rate per capita was eight times highr for males than for females and the injury rate per capita is more than four times higher for males.