Robert Schneider, a professor of urban planning at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and three of his colleagues, Rebecca Sanders, Frank Proulx, and Hamideh Moayyed — decided to look at data on pedestrian deaths to try to find out where they were happening most frequently. The data used was based on deaths recorded between 2001 and 2016.
One road, in particular, came up more than any other road and the country, and it was US-19 in Pasco County.
According to VOX, out of the 60 hot spots they identified as having a high number of deaths, seven of them were on US-19 in Pasco County alone — more than any other road in the United States. “When you add the numbers up, that’s 137 pedestrian fatalities over the entire Pasco County. That’s an incredibly high number,” Schneider says. “If an airplane crashed there and 137 people died, people would know about it,” he says.
48 people have been killed in car crashes that involved pedestrians on US-19 in Pasco County between 2017 and June 2022.
Read more data on US-19 and pedestrian deaths HERE.