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Report: Raleigh, A Dangerous Place For Pedestrians

Credit: AP Online

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RALEIGH, N.C. -

Raleigh has made it into the Top 10 of another list, this time for the amount of pedestrian fatalities.

Transportation for America has ranked the Raleigh-Cary area as one of the most dangerous cities for pedestrians in the country, Orlando, Fl. ranks number one.

The report, Dangerous by Design: Solving the Epidemic of Preventable Pedestrian Deaths, ranks the country's major metropolitan areas according to a pedestrian danger index that looks at how safe cities are for walking.

Also on the list:
1. Orlando-Kissimmee, FL
2 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
3 Miami-Fort Lauderdale- Pompano Beach, FL
4 Jacksonville, FL
5 Memphis, TN-MS-AR
6 Raleigh-Cary, NC
7 Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN
8 Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX
9 Birmingham-Hoover, AL
10 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA

 

Related Links

  1. Click here to read full report
  2. Click here to read NC statistics

Comments

  • By Mic on 11/09 01:49 PM

    Really? The top four are in Florida? What a surprise! (Please Note Sarcasm)

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