The National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA) claims that there are about 76,000 injuries suffered each year including a motor vehicle and that nearly a 5000 are killed simply because they wanted to cross the street. There are also thousands of injuries to pedestrians with no motor vehicle involved. Click here to read more about these statistics.
As most of us know being in any accident can be a traumatic event. Keep all options open if you have been in an accident as a pedestrian. Legal options can help to compensate the injured victim, their lost wages, medical bills, et cetera. Visit this site to see the options that remain open for an injured pedestrian.
Hitting a pedestrian at an average speed of about 30 mph (miles per hour) can cause serious injuries and sometimes fatalities. It is also traumatic for the driver as sometimes it is hard to stop on a dime or avoid an accident with a pedestrian that walks out from in between cars parked on the road, i.e. not in the cross walk. In this case, the driver of the car has some options legally as well. Click here to find out more about this.
No one can really know the amount of accidents that occur each year with or without a motor vehicle because not all of these accidents are reported, as the injuries might just be bruises and abrasion. The pedestrian should, as mentioned, keep their legal options open, and write down the license plate of the car with which you had the non-traumatic injury accident.
If the pedestrian is simply skateboarding along and falls, it is doubtful they can take legal action against themselves. So click here to read more about the placing of different objects around the city that a pedestrian can harm himself or herself on.