During the 5 years from 2010 to 2014, drivers on North Carolina roads were involved in an annual average of 2,623 pedestrian and 931 bicyclist crashes, and an average of 174 pedestrians and 22 bicyclists per year were killed. During the first half of 2016, automobiles were involved in crashes that resulted in 96 pedestrian fatalities, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association. These kind of numbers make North Carolina "one of the least safe States in the U.S. for walking and bicycling," according to the Web site of the program formed to help counter these grim statistics.
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