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


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TOTAL
CRASHES		 CRASHES
WITH INJURIES		 CRASHES
WITH FATALITIES
32 29 2

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
9
10
8
5
Crash rate per 1,000 pop. 0.81 0.89 0.7 0.44
Average rate 0.53 0.55 0.52 0.53
Crashes with injuries 9 9 7 4
Crashes with fatalities 0 1 0 1
PEDESTRIAN CRASHES
Total
5
7
6
3
Crash rate per 1,000 pop. 0.45 0.62 0.53 0.26
Average rate 0.26 0.30 0.29 0.31
Crashes with injuries 5 6 5 2
Crashes with fatalities 0 1 0 1
CYCLING CRASHES
Total
4
3
2
2
Crash rate per 1,000 pop. 0.36 0.27 0.18 0.17
Average rate 0.26 0.25 0.23 0.22
Crashes with injuries 4 3 2 2
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.