Crosswalk Markings and the Risk of Pedestrian–Motor Vehicle Collisions in Older Pedestrians
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- 6 November 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 288 (17) , 2136-2143
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.288.17.2136
Abstract
On September 14, 1899, at the corner of 74th Street and Central Park West in Manhattan, a man named Henry Bliss stepped off a streetcar and was struck and killed by an electric taxicab. Mr Bliss, 68, became the first American to be fatally injured in a pedestrian–motor vehicle collision.1,2 A century later, pedestrian–motor vehicle collisions caused 4739 deaths in the United States in 2000, accounting for 11% of all motor vehicle deaths and 78 000 reported injuries.Keywords
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