Attachment C <br />Why is addressing pedestrian safety necessary? <br />Attachment B <br />is' Some pedestrian risks and challenges are not necessarily included in <br />the definition of a road traffic collision and are therefore omitted from <br />official road incident data, for example, obstructions on roads, falls, trips and <br />slips, stumbling, animal bites and personal security. These hazards can lead <br />to serious injury and even death. For example, in Sweden, pedestrians who are <br />seriously injured following falls in the road traffic environment are not reported <br />in official road traffic injury statistics (22). However, in 2011, the number of <br />seriously injured pedestrians in the country was estimated to be 4500. If pedes- <br />trians who were seriously injured due to falling in the road environment had also <br />been considered, the number of seriously injured would have been more than <br />8400. One in every two people seriously injured in the road transport system <br />in 2011 in Sweden was a pedestrian who fell. In this light, it is evident that <br />several aspects of safe walking are omitted from official road traffic crash data. <br />1.2.2 The cost of pedestrian fatalities and injuries <br />Pedestrian collisions, like other road traffic collisions, have psychological, <br />socioeconomic and health costs. Road traffic injuries consume financial resources <br />that are needed for countries' development. There is no global estimate of the <br />economic impact of pedestrian road traffic crashes, but road traffic crashes in general <br />are estimated to cost between i and z% of gross national product (7). Survivors of <br />pedestrian crashes, their families, friends and other caregivers often suffer adverse <br />social, physical and psychological effects (see Box i.z). <br />BOX 1.2: Effect of a pedestrian death on a family, friends and community <br />The incident described shows the impact of a pedestrian fatality on the victim's immediate family members and <br />also on their friends and the broader community. <br />12 <br />"Deana is my daughter. She was 17 <br />years old when her life was cut short. <br />The crash occurred on 9 October 2003, <br />at 22:30. Deana was with four friends <br />going to a birthday party. They had just <br />got out of a taxi and were trying to cross <br />the Nile Corniche in Maadi. The taxi <br />driver had let them off on the wrong <br />side of the road. It is an extremely busy <br />street. The traffic is heavy, chaotic. There are no <br />traffic lights, no pedestrian crossings, just a constant <br />stream of speeding weaving cars, trucks and buses. <br />There is really nowhere to cross. You have to dart <br />across several lanes of traffic to get to the other <br />side. Deana was hit and killed by a speeding bus <br />as she tried to cross the road. The bus driver didn't <br />even slow down. <br />I was in Damascus at the time, travel- <br />lingfor mywork. My brother-in-law called <br />me to tell me the terrible news that my <br />baby girl had been hit. You can imagine <br />my guilt. I should have been in Cairo. I <br />could have driven her to the party. <br />Deana was beautiful. She had an infec- <br />tious smile. She always had time for <br />other people more than for herself. She had so many <br />friends I could not count them all. She enjoyed life <br />so much. Many of her friends still stay in touch with <br />us. Everyone was deeply affected by her death: her <br />family, her friends, the entire community, even people <br />we didn't know. I think of ripples of pain, an ever- <br />widening circle of those who were affected:" <br />Source: 23. <br />Page 157 <br />