Pedestrian Fatalities and Serious Injuries
Updated Using 2024 Data
Pedestrian fatalities and serious injuries are the total numbers of pedestrians killed on Florida’s roadways within 30 days of a crash or seriously injured due to traffic crashes on Florida’s roadways during a calendar year.
Methodology: Pedestrian Fatalities and Serious Injuries
The pedestrian fatalities are the total number of pedestrians killed in a traffic crash on Florida's roadways within 30 days of the crash. The pedestrian serious injuries are the total number of incapacitating injuries sustained by pedestrians in a traffic crash on Florida's roadways.
Calculation
`"Pedestrian Serious Injuries" = ∑"Pedestrian seriously injured (incapacitated) from a traffic crash"`
Reporting Periods
- Peak Hour
- Peak Period
- Daily
- Yearly
Definitions: Pedestrian Fatalities and Serious Injuries
- Number of fatalities: Total number of people killed on roadways as a direct result of a traffic crash within thirty days of the crash occurrence.
- Number of serious injuries: Number of disabling/incapacitating injuries (such as broken bones, severed limbs, etc.) from traffic crashes that prevent the injured individuals from engaging in normal activities and that usually require hospitalization and transport to a medical facility.
- Pedestrian: An individual who is not occupying a motor vehicle, bicycle or other mobile conveyance and who travels on feet.
- Reporting Periodo Yearly: Includes all the calendar days in a year.
Date of last refresh: 09/30/2025
SOURCES
Starting 2023: Signal Four Analytics (S4) database as of March 1 of the following year
For 2022: Signal Four Analytics (S4) database as of November 15, 2023
Prior years: Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles - Traffic Crash Facts Annual Report