PERILOUS PASSAGE | Pedestrian and cyclist crashes in the suburbs, 2012-2015


Park Ridge

TOTAL
CRASHES		 CRASHES
WITH INJURIES		 CRASHES
WITH FATALITIES
108 104 3

Total crash rate per 1,000 population


Total crashes is the sum of cyclist and pedestrian crashes for each year. Rate per 1,000 for each municipality calculated using American Community Survey 5-year population estimates. Average rate is average of all municipalities examined.


2012 2013 2014 2015
ALL CRASHES
Total
23
26
32
27
Crash rate per 1,000 pop. 0.62 0.69 0.85 0.72
Average rate 0.53 0.55 0.52 0.53
Crashes with injuries 21 25 31 27
Crashes with fatalities 1 1 1 0
PEDESTRIAN CRASHES
Total
10
7
17
17
Crash rate per 1,000 pop. 0.27 0.19 0.45 0.45
Average rate 0.26 0.30 0.29 0.31
Crashes with injuries 9 6 16 17
Crashes with fatalities 1 1 1 0
CYCLING CRASHES
Total
13
19
15
10
Crash rate per 1,000 pop. 0.35 0.51 0.4 0.27
Average rate 0.26 0.25 0.23 0.22
Crashes with injuries 12 19 15 10
Crashes with fatalities 0 0 0 0

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Daily Herald web app by Tim Broderick tbroderick@dailyherald.com. Source: Illinois Department of Transportation, Bureau of Safety Programs and Engineering.
Data of motor vehicle crashes involving pedestrians and cyclists for the years 2012-2015. Not every town in the six-county area around Chicago was included, and not every town included had stats for each year.
All files and data are available at our github site. A look of how we examined the data can be found here. App based on First News App by Ben Welsh.