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Pedestrian Deaths On Rise, State Health Department Says Pedestrian Deaths On Rise, State Health Department Says
Pedestrian Deaths On Rise, State Health Department Says It’s one of the first things we learn as a child: look both ways before you cross the street. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning this week as pedestrian killed in traffic crashes has reached an all-time high, with an average of one crash-related pedestrian death every 1.6 hours, according to officials. In a study released this week, the CDC noted that as recently as 2015, 5,376 pedestrians were killed in traffic crashes, 19 percent of which were Americans over the age of 65. In 2015, one in every five children under the age of 15 who were killed in traffic crash…

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by Zak Failla