In the USA, there were 7485 pedestrian fatalities in 2021 this was a 54% increase in the span of a decade from 2010 to 2020 meanwhile, in the same period, total count of all other traffic deaths increased only by 13%. In 2021, 343 pedestrians lost their lives in Germany, 414 in France, and 527 in Poland. While UK data from the COVID-19 lockdown period of 2020 showed a temporary decrease in the number of pedestrian fatalities, the numbers after the lockdown period remain high. 4763 pedestrians died on the roads of the European Union in the year 2018 and pedestrian fatalities in Europe in general had consistently accounted for approximately 20% of all road fatalities in the 2010–2018 period. Despite the available technology and engineering enhancements in fields of preventive, passive and acitve safety, the problem of human lives being lost in pedestrian accidents remains present.
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