PERILOUS PASSAGE | Pedestrian and cyclist crashes in the suburbs, 2012-2015
TOTAL CRASHES |
CRASHES WITH INJURIES |
CRASHESWITH FATALITIES |
---|---|---|
240 | 226 | 9 |
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 |
48 |
71 |
59 |
62 |
Crash rate per 1,000 pop. | 0.74 | 1.09 | 0.91 | 0.95 |
Average rate | 0.53 | 0.55 | 0.52 | 0.53 |
Crashes with injuries | 44 | 66 | 55 | 61 |
Crashes with fatalities | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
PEDESTRIAN CRASHES Total |
22 |
28 |
30 |
29 |
Crash rate per 1,000 pop. | 0.34 | 0.43 | 0.46 | 0.45 |
Average rate | 0.26 | 0.30 | 0.29 | 0.31 |
Crashes with injuries | 21 | 24 | 27 | 29 |
Crashes with fatalities | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
CYCLING CRASHES Total |
26 |
43 |
29 |
33 |
Crash rate per 1,000 pop. | 0.4 | 0.66 | 0.45 | 0.51 |
Average rate | 0.26 | 0.25 | 0.23 | 0.22 |
Crashes with injuries | 23 | 42 | 28 | 32 |
Crashes with fatalities | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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.