A Lieutenant Colonel assigned to the Office of the Judge Advocate General, Arlington, Virginia, died in a pedestrian mishap 30 April 2018 in Arlington. The Soldier was reportedly struck by a vehicle and died at a local hospital.
- Pedestrians were one of the few groups of road users to experience an increase in fatalities in the U.S. in 2015, totaling 5,376 deaths.
- On average, a pedestrian is killed nearly every 1.5 hours in traffic crashes.
- Twenty-six percent of pedestrian fatalities in the U.S. occur from 6 to 8:59 p.m.
- Washington, D.C. has the third highest number of pedestrian fatalities in the U.S. Only Puerto Rico and New York have higher numbers.
- In 2016, more than two-thirds (70 percent) of pedestrians killed in traffic crashes were male.