![]() ![]() For a 70-year-old, the chances are somewhat lower but still a robust 87 percent. The average pedestrian struck by a driver traveling at 20 mph has a 93 percent chance of surviving. ProPublica’s Lena Groeger used data from the AAA Safety Foundation to chart the plummeting likelihood of survival as motorist speed increases. ![]() ![]() The investigative news nonprofit ProPublica has produced an interactive graph that deftly conveys how just a few miles per hour can spell the difference between life and death when a person is struck by a motorist. Speed kills, especially on city streets teeming with pedestrians and cyclists. A still from ProPublica‘s interactive graph.
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