Oklahoman
She kept the burial flag of her grandfather, a U.S. Army veteran, in her car window, and it was that flag, in pieces and scattered on the northeast Oklahoma City street, that signified Star Shells was dead.
Shells’ mother, Connie Basco, got the call Monday morning, shortly after Shells, 28, dropped her two young sons off at John W. Rex Charter School and was on her way home.
There had been a police chase, ending in a violent car wreck at Martin Luther King Avenue and NE 16. It scattered car parts along an entire city block. Basco arrived on the scene, desperate for answers.
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Pedestrian deaths increased in Rhode Island over the past year. (Shutterstock)
PROVIDENCE, RI Speeding and drunken and distracted driving are the likely culprits behind a spike in pedestrian deaths recorded in several U.S. states last year, according to new data released Thursday.
In fact, bad driver behavior during the coronavirus pandemic likely contributed to the largest-ever nationwide increase in pedestrian deaths recorded in a single year, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association s 2020 report on pedestrian fatalities by state.
Rhode Island is among those that saw an increase in pedestrian deaths in 2020, or the number of people on foot who were killed by people driving cars.
Subscribe Last year was filled with so much death and loss as COVID swept across the country. As America gets vaccinated and returns to normal, we need to treat pedestrian safety like the public health emergency that it is, Jonathan Adkins, executive director of the Governors Highway Safety Association, said in a news release. We must strengthen our efforts to protect those on foot from traffic violence by implementing equitable and proven countermeasures that protect people walking and address those driving behaviors that pose the greatest risk, Adkins said.
Data for the report was provided by state highway safety offices. Since the data is preliminary, it may also be incomplete, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association. The numbers are meant to provide an early look at 2020 pedestrian deaths, months before the data is available through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration s Fatality Analysis Reporting System.
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One-hundred and fifty-five pedestrians died in Illinois in 2020, down from 171 last year, even as pedestrian deaths spiked nationwide. (Shutterstock)
ILLINOIS Speeding and drunken and distracted driving are the likely culprits behind a spike in pedestrian deaths recorded in several U.S. states last year, according to new data released Thursday.
In fact, bad driver behavior during the coronavirus pandemic likely contributed to the largest-ever nationwide increase in pedestrian deaths recorded in a single year, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association s 2020 report on pedestrian fatalities by state.
Luckily, Illinois seemed to buck the national trend. It was among several states that saw a decrease in pedestrian deaths, or the number of people on foot who were killed by people driving cars, in 2020.
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Washington is one of many states that saw an increase in pedestrian deaths last year. (Shutterstock)
WASHINGTON Speeding and drunken or distracted driving are the likely culprits behind a spike in pedestrian deaths recorded in several U.S. states last year, according to new data released Thursday.
In fact, bad driver behavior during the coronavirus pandemic likely contributed to the largest-ever nationwide increase in pedestrian deaths recorded in a single year, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association s 2020 report on pedestrian fatalities by state.
Washington is among those that saw an increase in pedestrian deaths in 2020, though it didn t see one of the bigger spikes. Based on preliminary data provided by state highway safety offices, a total of 109 pedestrian deaths were reported in our state in 2020, a nine percent increase from 2019.