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


Aurora

TOTAL
CRASHES		 CRASHES
WITH INJURIES		 CRASHES
WITH FATALITIES
371 358 8

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
98
89
101
83
Crash rate per 1,000 pop. 0.5 0.45 0.51 0.41
Average rate 0.53 0.55 0.52 0.53
Crashes with injuries 97 85 96 80
Crashes with fatalities 0 3 4 1
PEDESTRIAN CRASHES
Total
52
50
57
50
Crash rate per 1,000 pop. 0.26 0.25 0.29 0.25
Average rate 0.26 0.30 0.29 0.31
Crashes with injuries 52 46 53 49
Crashes with fatalities 0 3 3 0
CYCLING CRASHES
Total
46
39
44
33
Crash rate per 1,000 pop. 0.23 0.2 0.22 0.16
Average rate 0.26 0.25 0.23 0.22
Crashes with injuries 45 39 43 31
Crashes with fatalities 0 0 1 1

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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.