Governing magazine published a report, "America's Poor Neighborhoods Plagued by Pedestrian Deaths,"  that provides results of an analysis of more than 22,000 U.S. traffic accidents from 2008-12 and finds that pedestrians are killed at disproportionately higher rates in the nation's poorer neighborhoods.

Within metro areas, low-income U.S. Census tracts had pedestrian fatality rates approximately twice that of more affluent tracts. Examining Census tract poverty rates yielded a similar pattern.  Metro-area tracts below the national poverty rate of 15 percent registered 5.3 deaths per 100,000 residents over the five-year period. By comparison, poor neighborhoods where more than a quarter of the population lived in poverty recorded a rate of 12.1 deaths per 100,000 people.