State officials are disappointed about a 25-percent jump in the number of pedestrian fatalities in Minnesota in 2024.
Mike Hanson with the Office of Traffic Safety says 56 pedestrian deaths is an alarming number…
“We started to see this real significant uptick in pedestrian and other vulnerable road user fatalities really kind of coincided with the onset of the pandemic and everything that came with that. People just started be out walking a lot more.”
He says those numbers have to start going down…
“We’re trying to find ways to both educate and inform drivers and educate and inform pedestrians, and bikes, anybody who’s out there not in a motor vehicle on or adjacent to those roadways, how to do that safely.”
Hanson says another significant factor is that drivers have been going way too fast over the last five years.
(content: courtesy MNN)
