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Dangerous by Design: An urgent call to prioritize pedestrian safety

Uncover the urgent truths behind America’s rising pedestrian fatalities and explore transformative solutions to create safer, more inclusive streets for everyone. Join us in reimagining our roadways—prioritizing people over cars to protect lives.

Learn more from experts at four other organizations

We are honored to include three special topical supplements in this year’s report. Click the links below to learn about dangerous street design from a different angle.

Guest Posts

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provided support for data analysis and synthesis used in the report under cooperative agreement OT18-1802 supporting the Active People, Healthy NationSM Initiative, a national initiative led by the CDC to help 27 million Americans become more physically active by 2027.

Learn more: https://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/activepeoplehealthynation/index.html. The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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