Vaughn Barry, Miriam E Van Dyke, Jasmine Y Nakayama, Hatidza Zaganjor, Michael Sheppard, Zachary Stein, Lakshmi Radhakrishnan, Emily Schweninger, Kenneth Rose, Geoffrey P Whitfield, Bethany West
Traffic-related pedestrian deaths in the United States reached a 40-year high in 2021. Each year, pedestrians also suffer nonfatal traffic-related injuries requiring medical treatment. Near real-time emergency department visit data from CDC's National Syndromic Surveillance Program during January 2021-December 2023 indicated that among approximately 301 million visits identified, 137,325 involved a pedestrian injury (overall visit proportion = 45.62 per 100,000 visits). The proportions of visits for pedestrian injury were 1...
May 2, 2024: MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report