(Bloomberg) – The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is calling for a three-pronged approach to combat pedestrian fatalities, which have ballooned in the last decade.
The board on Tuesday recommended safety improvements to vehicles — such as improved headlights and braking systems — and to local infrastructure. It also said better data-collection measures are needed to address the rising number of deaths, which surged 46% from 2009 to 2016, the last full year of available data. The total, 5,987, was the most since 1990.
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