6. Fatally Injured Nonoccupants
Table 33 depicts the role of the nonoccupants, who were killed in alcohol-related crashes, i.e., if they were a pedestrian, pedalcyclist, or other type of nonmotorists. As seen previously in table 2, about 11 percent of all alcohol-related crashes in 2003 involved a nonoccupant who was the only person in the crash to have alcohol. There were 6,014 nonoccupants involved in fatal crashes, of which 2,416 had some alcohol. There were 5,450 fatally injured nonoccupants, of which 1,964 had some alcohol. There were also 555 nonoccupants with no alcohol who were killed in alcohol-related crashes (a driver/motorcycle operator involved in the crash had alcohol). Summarizing, a total of 2,519 nonoccupants were killed in alcohol-related crashes and 1,964 of them had some alcohol.
Table 33: Nonoccupants Killed in Alcohol-Related Crashes by Role, 2003
| Number |
Number |
Percent |
Number |
Percent |
4,749 |
2,496 |
52.6% |
2,253 |
47.4% |
619 |
381 |
61.6% |
238 |
38.4% |
3 |
3 |
90.0% |
0 |
10.0% |
78 |
51 |
65.4% |
27 |
34.6% |
1 |
1 |
60.0% |
0 |
40.0% |
5,450 |
2,931 |
53.8% |
2,519 |
46.2% |
About 46 percent of all nonoccupant fatalities occurred in alcohol-related crashes in 2003. About 90 percent [2,253/2,519] of the nonoccupant fatalities in alcohol-related crashes occurred to pedestrians. The remainder of this section will depict the characteristics of pedestrians killed in alcohol-related crashes.
6.1 Pedestrians Killed in Alcohol-Related Crashes
In 2003, there were 2,253 pedestrian fatalities in alcohol-related crashes. Some of these pedestrians had alcohol, while the others who did not have alcohol were killed in crashes that involved a driver with alcohol.
Table 34 depicts the alcohol involvement of the pedestrians killed in alcohol-related crashes by the type of the crash, i.e., if it was a single-vehicle or multiple-vehicle crash.
Table 34: Pedestrians Killed in Alcohol-Related Crashes by Crash Type and
Alcohol Involvement, 2003
1,616
71.68%
80.25%
91.10% |
398
17.64%
19.75%
82.75% |
2,014
89.32% |
158
7.00%
65.57%
8.90% |
81
3.68%
34.43%
17.25% |
241
10.7% |
1,774
78.68% |
479
21.32% |
2,253
100% |
As seen in table 34, about 79 percent of the pedestrians killed in alcohol-related crashes themselves had alcohol. About 90 percent of the pedestrian fatalities in alcohol-related crashes occurred in single-vehicle crashes. Table 35 depicts the general location (rural or urban) of the single-vehicle crashes in which the 2,014 pedestrians were fatally injured.
Table 35: Pedestrians Killed in Single-Vehicle Alcohol-Related Crashes by
Their Alcohol Involvement and Roadway Function Class, 2003
489
30.3% |
1,114
68.9% |
13
0.8% |
1,616
100% |
112
28.1% |
286
71.8% |
1
0.1% |
398
100% |
601
29.9% |
1,399
69.5% |
14
0.7% |
2,014
100% |
As depicted in table 35, about 70 percent [1,399/2,014] of the pedestrians killed in single-vehicle alcohol-related crashes were in urban locations. This is true irrespective of whether the pedestrian had alcohol or not. Furthermore, close to 80 percent [1,114/1,399] of pedestrians killed in urban, single-vehicle, alcohol-related crashes themselves had alcohol.
Table 36 depicts the time of the day (day or night) of the single-vehicle, alcohol-related crashes in which the 2,014 pedestrians were fatally injured.
Table 36: Pedestrians Killed in Single-Vehicle, Alcohol-Related Crashes by
Their Alcohol Involvement and Time of the Day, 2003
170
10.5% |
1,433
88.6% |
13
0.8% |
1,616
100% |
100
25.2% |
296
74.3% |
2
0.5% |
398
100% |
270
13.4% |
1,728
85.8% |
15.3
0.8% |
2,014
100% |
As shown in table 36, about 86 percent [1,728/2,014] of the pedestrians were killed in single-vehicle alcohol-related crashes that occurred during the nighttime. This increased to 89 percent [1,433/1,616] among pedestrians who themselves had alcohol.