Below is a data visualization of pedestrian accident fatalities represented by circle size by each state. The data comes from the NHTSA and this is their most current data from 2011. Going by the number of fatalities, California is the most dangerous place to be a pedestrian with 625 pedestrian fatalities out of the 4,432 total in the U.S.
State |
Pedestrian Fatalities |
| California | 625 |
| Florida | 490 |
| Texas | 421 |
| New York | 287 |
| North Carolina | 160 |
| Arizona | 147 |
| Pennsylvania | 147 |
| New Jersey | 142 |
| Michigan | 138 |
| Illinois | 134 |
| Georgia | 130 |
| South Carolina | 113 |
| Ohio | 104 |
| Maryland | 102 |
| Louisiana | 88 |
| Tennessee | 80 |
| Alabama | 79 |
| Missouri | 75 |
| Virginia | 73 |
| Washington | 64 |
| Indiana | 61 |
| Massachusetts | 58 |
| Wisconsin | 57 |
| Kentucky | 50 |
| Mississippi | 47 |
| Nevada | 46 |
| Oregon | 46 |
| Colorado | 45 |
| Oklahoma | 43 |
| Arkansas | 42 |
| New Mexico | 41 |
| Minnesota | 39 |
| Utah | 30 |
| Connecticut | 26 |
| Iowa | 25 |
| Hawaii | 23 |
| West Virginia | 20 |
| Delaware | 18 |
| Montana | 15 |
| Kansas | 14 |
| Rhode Island | 14 |
| Maine | 10 |
| Alaska | 9 |
| Idaho | 9 |
| North Dakota | 9 |
| District of Columbia | 8 |
| Nebraska | 7 |
| South Dakota | 7 |
| Wyoming | 6 |
| New Hampshire | 5 |
| Vermont | 3 |
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