2024 deadliest year for pedestrians in City of St. Louis
FOX 2 St. Louis
[{'start': '2.902', 'end': '4.770', 'text': "FUTURE CAST INTO TOMORROW.   COMING UP IN A COUPLE OF   MINUTES. ALL RIGHT, GLENN,   THANKS SO MUCH. WELL, NEW   TONIGHT, PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES   ARE INCREASING IN ST. LOUIS   CITY AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY.   >> AND AGENCY ADVOCATING FOR   SAFER WALKING AND BICYCLING   ROUTES RELEASED A NEW REPORT   WHICH REVEALS THE LATEST   TRENDS. FOX NEWS JEFF BERNTHAL   REPORTS ON WHY TRAILNET   BELIEVES THERE ARE WAYS TO   MAKE IMPROVEMENTS.   >> 2 CAR THATS THE RIGHT HERE.   A TRUCK RAN UP ON THIS THING.   ANGELA JONES WAS ON NATURAL   BRIDGE IN HIS WITNESS, TOO   MANY CRASHES SLOWDOWN. I'M   SCARED MY HOUSE GOING A FEW   YEARS AGO. EFFORTS WERE MADE   TO IMPROVE SAFETY BY ADDING   TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES.   IMMEDIATELY. THEY SAW A 79%   REDUCTION.   >> AND CRASHES IN THAT   CORRIDOR AND THEY SUSTAIN IT.   >> SO SINCE 2021 SAYS PUTTING   IT IN, WE KNOW TRAFFIC CALMING   INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS. IT'S   THOSE TYPES OF MEASURES TRAIL   THAT BELIEVES WE'LL MAKE A   DIFFERENCE ON SIMILAR ROADS   LIKE GRAND GRAVOIS AND PAUL   SPERRY ITS LATEST TRAIL. THAT   CRASH REPORT FOUND 187%   INCREASE IN PEDESTRIAN   FATALITIES.   >> IN THE CITY IN 2024, ST.   LOUIS COUNTY, THE NUMBER   CLIMBED 24%.   >> A LARGE JUMP IN THE CITY IS   IN PART BECAUSE THE PREVIOUS   YEAR SAW THE PLANE, THE TRAIL   THAT DISCOVERED OVERALL TREND.   WE ALSO LOOKED AT 10 YEARS OF   DATA AND WE SEE THIS   CONSISTENT, YOU KNOW, JUST.   >> THE FATALITY RATES GOING UP   ON A CONSISTENT BASIS IN 2024.   23 PEDESTRIANS WERE KILLED IN   ST. LOUIS CITY AND 36 WERE   KILLED IN ST. LOUIS COUNTY.   WE'RE CONTINUING TO SEE   PEDESTRIANS BEING AT RISK   ALONG OUR ARTERIAL. SO THESE   ARE ROADS THAT ARE WIDE FAST.   THERE ARE ROADS THAT DON'T   HAVE ENOUGH CROSSINGS FOR FOR   PEOPLE. IT'S NOT JUST TRAFFIC   CALMING MEASURES TRAIL THAT   HAS BEEN ADVOCATING FOR THE   AGENCY. ALSO PUSHING FOR MORE   DRIVER EDUCATION AND SUPPORTED   LEGISLATION THAT CREATED   PENALTIES IN MISSOURI FOR   DRIVERS USING THEIR PHONES.   AND SO ALL THOSE THINGS   COMBINED ARE GOING TO MAKE IT   SAFER FOR FOLKS. YOU CAN"}]