Charleston-North Charleston ranked as the 5th worst metro in the nation for pedestrian deaths in a new study

The number of people struck and killed while walking reached yet another new high in 2020. More than 6,500 people were struck and killed while walking in 2020, an average of nearly 18 per day, and a 4.5 percent increase over 2019.

This epidemic continues growing worse because our nation’s streets are dangerous by design, designed primarily to move cars quickly at the expense of keeping everyone safe. The result in 2020 was a significant increase in all traffic fatalities, even with less driving overall due to the pandemic.

The 5th worst metro in the United States from 2016-2020 is Charleston – North Charleston, South Carolina behind only Daytona-Ormond Beach, FL, Albuquerque, NM, Memphis, TN, and Tampa-St Petersburg-Clearwater, FL.

The state of South Carolina came in as the 3rd most dangerous state in the nation with 3.19 deaths per 100,000 people.

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 Nation^SM 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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