A decade of people killed walking
13,426 pedestrians were killed in 12,878 crashes reported across 51 states between 2016 and 2025. Where the reporting says, about half the drivers left them there, and close to two in three were struck in the dark, with the toll climbing every December as the evening commute moves into the night.
UNITED STATES · 2016–2025
12,878 EVENTS IN VIEW
The decadeClick any year to filter the whole dashboard to it. Click it again to clear.
United States · 2016–2025
A rise means more covered crashes were detected: real change blended with shifts in how much news coverage existed and was indexed. It is not a fatality trend.
The statesEvery state is one equal cell, so a small state stays as readable as a large one. Click a cell to filter the dashboard.
Equal-cell cartogram
Counts, not rates. No exposure denominator exists, so a populous state looks large partly because it is populous.
When people are killedClick any cell or year label to filter the dashboard to that year.
The one circumstance this corpus knows exactly, with no model and no geocoding, and the one with a strong, known signal.
Dec (1,363) against Apr (894) in the United States.
The winter peak is the darkness effect: after the autumn clock change the evening commute happens in the dark. It is the strongest and most consistent signal in this corpus, and it needs no model: event_date alone gives it.
Y-axis floors at the trough, not zero, because a zero baseline hides a real swing.
Saturday carries the most, Wednesday the fewest.