In 1997 Vermont’s pedestrian fatality rate was 2.04 per 100,000 population and Maryland’s was 2.10 not a whole lot of difference. In 2008 (latest year) Vermont’s pedestrian fatality rate was 0.16! While Maryland made a modest improvement of 2.06.
If you look at the trends on FARS you see that other states are making progress while Maryland is basically staying the same. So Maryland’s ranking among the other states keeps going up to our current rank of the 6th highest pedestrian fatality rate.
I’ll see if I can dig up more info on this and thanks to one of our readers for bringing this to my attention.
Data from: https://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/States/StatesPedestrians.aspxoldId.20101029133203985
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