Editorial: Protecting our seniors
A new report indicates that Brooklyn’s senior citizens are particularly vulnerable when they take to the streets as pedestrians.
According to the Tri-State Transportation Campaign’s Older Pedestrians at Risk: A Ten Year Survey and Look Ahead, approximately 22 percent (202) of the 916 pedestrians ages 60 years and older who were killed on downstate New York roads between 2003 and 2012, lost their lives on Brooklyn thoroughfares, the largest number in any downstate region, and the third highest average fatality rate in the downstate area.
Not only that, but, the report contends, seniors are at a “disproportionately” higher risk of being killed in collisions with vehicles while walking compared to younger people.
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