The 8:15 a.m. crash at Pennsylvania and Blake Aves. in East New York happened just paces from three neighborhood schools and about two miles from where a 10-year-old girl was fatally struck by a school bus Tuesday, officials said.

City officials called the street closings planned starting Friday are an “initial pilot,” and that more sites may be added to the program in the coming days. De Blasio said on Tuesday he’d like to open “up to two streets per borough.”

A Boeing 737 ran over a man who was on an Austin, TX runway

Police said the pregnant woman was hit on South Harding Street, near the I-465 ramp.

Officers were called to East 38th Street and N. Mitthoeffer Road shortly before 10 p.m. where they found a body lying in the roadway.

A number of studies have demonstrated community acceptance of Safe Routes to School interventions as well as their success in addressing perceptions about safety, but little is known about their effectiveness in reducing pedestrian injury risk in school-aged children.

Implementation of a Safe Routes to School program in New York City may have contributed to a substantial reduction in school-aged pedestrian injury rates, with the effects largely limited to school-travel hours in census tracts with these interventions. (Read the full article)

Many studies have demonstrated that the built environment is related to both collision risk and walking to school. However, little research examines the influence of the built environment on the relationship between walking to school and pedestrian collision risk.

Increased walking was not associated with increased pedestrian collision once the effects of the built environment and socioeconomic status were modeled. Safety was related primarily to the built environment and specifically features related to road crossing. (Read the full article)

Agency: DOT Closing Date: 6/2/2020

Wilmington --

The Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) announces to motorists that this project will begin on Monday, May 18, 2020. Motorists can anticipate daytime lane and shoulder closure on weekdays from 7:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. on Route 48/Lancaster Pike and Lancaster Avenue.

This project will improve the Pedestrian Accessible Route (PAR) and sidewalk connections along Lancaster Pike from West Court Drive to DuPont Road. [More]

Cooperative statewide effort to reduce pedestrian deaths and encourage safe walking habits.

ANCHORAGE WET POND PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS

BRANDYWINE SOUTH PEDESTRIAN AND TRAIL IMPROVEMENTS

Southwest Airlines in America has announced that an incident occurred after one of its planes landed on Thursday. The Boeing 737-700 (registered N401WN) operated domestic flight WN1392 between Dallas and Austin. On Friday, the airline explained that after landing at Austin’s runway 17R, the pilots spotted a pedestrian. The aircraft, however, maneuvered and came to […]

Aircraft kills pedestrian on runway

CES 2020 – LAS VEGAS, Nev. – January 6, 2020 – HARMAN, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., focused on connected technologies and solutions for automotive, consumer and enterprise markets, today unveiled a new ADAS use case, called...

Pedestrian fatalities from vehicle impacts in 2019 were the highest in the U.S. in over three decades, a February report finds.

A pedestrian has died after being hit by a black BMW as he crossed a road in south London.

MPs will investigate the potential consequences of allowing electric scooters to be used on the road.

The Secretary of State will be joined at Downing Street with deputy chief medical officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam.

Nobody is actually asking the question, because pedestrians don't matter, do they?

On this National Walking Day, a look at the excuses cities use to make it difficult to do so.

They are people who bike or walk, not some separate species.

A study comparing the two countries shows vast differences in how cars are used.

A Today Show bit today is perhaps the grossest example yet.

This is an urban design issue, a car design issue, and a demographics issue. Distracted walking is a rounding error.

People are "risking their lives every winter by wearing dark clothing."

More pedestrians are getting killed in the roads. Are their phones really the reason?

Because bridges are for people.

Perhaps AVs should have their own lower speed limits until they figure this all out.

On National Walking Day, a look at how putting cars first kills people who walk and drive.

It may be decades before AVs are good enough, so in the meantime everyone will have to keep out of their way.

An airbag on the hood of the car to protect pedestrians? We also have a video of Paris flooded by rising seas, a sliding library creates an extra room, and more.

A before and after photo of Lexington Avenue tells the story.

Studies prove these myths aren't true but nobody is listening.

That's an alternate name for Halloween, but let's not forget the rest of the year.

Daniel Herridges of Strong Towns says, "If your goal is to promote public safety, design for the humans you have, not the ones you wish you had."

The GHSA blames the switch to light trucks, bad road design, distraction and even climate change.

Nevada study finds that every thousand bucks of added value decreases the odds of yielding to pedestrians by three percent.

Dashcam footage filmed at a pedestrian crossing showed the driver of a ZAZ Slavuta smashing into the pram in the city of Energodar last Friday.

Organisers of the Northey Street Organic Farmers Market in Brisbane were furious when police infiltrated the market in the car rather than on foot on Sunday.

Amanpreet Singh has been acquitted on a more serious charge of causing death by dangerous driving after 61-year-old Manjit Dhadwal was killed on a wet night in Adelaide in November 2017.

More than 372 million ride-hail trips in New York City between 2017 and 2018 were studied to look at patterns of crashes.

In a study from researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health , experts collected data from 370 million rides taken by Uber and Lyft in New York City between 2017 to 2018.

A furious Melbourne pedestrian left a handwritten note on a motorist's car slamming their parking job before it was shared online.