Originally Posted by
BarracksSi
Hmm...
There are a lot of other factors that can be worked into ped fatalities, though. I'll bet that there aren't as many people in, say, Talbot Co. that would throw themselves in front of a bus just to collect injury settlement payments from the bus company. Maybe the cops in PG County are more concerned with violent crime than sitting around with radar guns.
I'd bet that there is a much smaller percentage as well as number of pedestrians and cyclists in the traffic mix the farther one goes to the right on that graph; and that the percentage of higher speed rural and semi rural roads gets higher as one goes right along that same axis.