{"title":"Health E-Stats.","authors":"Anne M Zehner, Matthew F Garnett","doi":"10.15620/cdc/174605","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Pedestrians and pedal cyclists are recognized as two classes of vulnerable road users, or those who travel on roads and highways without the physical protection provided by a motor vehicle, such as a car or truck. This report examines trends in pedestrian and pedal cyclist injury deaths from 2013 to 2023 by census region, sex, and age group.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data are from the National Vital Statistics System mortality files for 2013 through 2023. Deaths were identified using <i>International Statistical Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision</i> (ICD-10) underlying cause-of-death codes V01-V09 for pedestrians and V10-V19 for pedal cyclists. Age-adjusted death rates were calculated and tests for trends were performed to determine changes over time.</p><p><strong>Key findings: </strong>Between 2013 and 2023, the age-adjusted rate of pedestrian and pedal cyclist injury death in the United States rose from 2.1 deaths per 100,000 standard population to 2.9. Among both females and males ages 25-44 and 45-64 years, the rate of pedestrian and pedal cyclist injury death increased between 2013 and 2023. The death rate also increased for males age 65 and older and decreased for males ages 0-14 in this same period.</p>","PeriodicalId":39458,"journal":{"name":"NCHS data brief","volume":" 107","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"NCHS data brief","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.15620/cdc/174605","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"Medicine","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Introduction: Pedestrians and pedal cyclists are recognized as two classes of vulnerable road users, or those who travel on roads and highways without the physical protection provided by a motor vehicle, such as a car or truck. This report examines trends in pedestrian and pedal cyclist injury deaths from 2013 to 2023 by census region, sex, and age group.
Methods: Data are from the National Vital Statistics System mortality files for 2013 through 2023. Deaths were identified using International Statistical Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) underlying cause-of-death codes V01-V09 for pedestrians and V10-V19 for pedal cyclists. Age-adjusted death rates were calculated and tests for trends were performed to determine changes over time.
Key findings: Between 2013 and 2023, the age-adjusted rate of pedestrian and pedal cyclist injury death in the United States rose from 2.1 deaths per 100,000 standard population to 2.9. Among both females and males ages 25-44 and 45-64 years, the rate of pedestrian and pedal cyclist injury death increased between 2013 and 2023. The death rate also increased for males age 65 and older and decreased for males ages 0-14 in this same period.