Twenty pedestrians killed in 2022
The SPVM report for 2022 says 20 pedestrians were killed on city streets last year. I only saw reports of half of them.
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Meezly 10:26 on 2023-01-19 Permalink
Wonder how that compares with other cities of similar size.
DeWolf 13:43 on 2023-01-19 Permalink
@Meezly
New York City: 118 pedestrians killed in 2022, equivalent to 28 in Montreal.
Toronto: 27, equivalent to 19 in Montreal.
Vancouver: 9, equivalent to 27 in Montreal
Boston/Cambridge/Somerville: 16, equivalent to 36 in Montreal
Chicago: 31, equivalent to 41 in Montreal
Los Angeles: 157, equivalent to 301 in Montreal (holy shit)
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Bottom line is that it’s better to be a pedestrian in Montreal than most other large cities in North America. And buy life insurance if you’re going to be walking around LA.
DeWolf 13:47 on 2023-01-19 Permalink
Whoops, bad math on Chicago and LA (I reversed the population numbers).
Chicago: 31, equivalent to 23 in Montreal
Los Angeles: 157, equivalent to 80 in Montreal
Meezly 14:15 on 2023-01-19 Permalink
Thanks for calculating that, DeWolf. Very interesting comparisons.
jeather 16:01 on 2023-01-19 Permalink
Though you’re not wrong, I do think that — especially for LA — there must be a factor based on how much people are pedestrians. NYC has lots of pedestrians, but LA notably has a much lower percentage of transit users. (For argument’s sake I am going to equate transit use with pedestrians, even though that’s also a simplification.)
DeWolf 16:18 on 2023-01-19 Permalink
You’re right, jeather. The most car-oriented cities, the ones with the fewest pedestrians, are also the ones with the highest pedestrian fatality rates. Which means that you’re exponentially more likely to be killed while walking in LA or Houston than in New York, Boston, Toronto or Montreal.
Out of curiosity I looked up the number of pedestrians killed by drivers in Houston and it was 104 in 2021 (can’t find the numbers for last year). That’s equivalent to 93 in Montreal. Terrifying.
Ephraim 16:50 on 2023-01-19 Permalink
@DeWolf – I’m wondering if that LA number is because they are more honest about it, or they are hiding other statistics inside of this amount, the way that they hide actual murders by classifying them as drug or gang related
Blork 17:11 on 2023-01-19 Permalink
Well, it’s anecdotal, but I’ve only come close to being run down by a car ONCE thus far into the 21st Century, and it was on Rose Avenue in L.A. (And wow, was that a close call!)
jeather 17:35 on 2023-01-19 Permalink
I’d like to see, I don’t know, some method of integrating pedestrian-mile or somethng. Not doable, but I would love to know.
DeWolf 18:50 on 2023-01-19 Permalink
@Ephraim LA is on the low end for a car-oriented US city. It doesn’t even rank in the top 20 of the deadliest urban areas for pedestrians. Even Houston isn’t on the list:
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/07/12/daytona-ranks-no-1-and-orlando-no-8-in-pedestrian-deaths-study-says/