Distracted Driving & Pedestrian Safety Resources
ALL children are pedestrians at some point. Between 2017-2020, 2,409 children and adolescents died from pedestrian injuries. In CSN’s infographic, All Children are Pedestrians! Prevention Tips and Recent Stats, you can learn more about how pedestrian injury death rates differ by age, sex, race/ethnicity, urbanicity, location, time of day and ways you can help keep children safe.
Distracted driving is dangerous, claiming 3,142 lives in 2020. NHTSA leads the national effort to save lives by preventing this dangerous behavior. Get the facts, get involved, and help us keep America’s roads safe.
Most crashes and fatalities are preventable and caused by things such as speeding, drunk driving and distracted driving. That’s why the approach to reaching zero deaths must be through what TxDOT calls the 3 E’s – engineering, education and enforcement. That way, everyone has a responsibility to keep our roads and fellow drivers safe.
