May 18, 2026 · 22 min · 11 segments
Brandy Brubaker, Director of Virginia's Highway Safety Office, discusses the unique challenges to keeping pedestrians, bicyclists, and other vulnerable road users safe on our roadways.
Well, looking at the pedestrian numbers, 2019, just before COVID, we had 126 pedestrian fatalities in Virginia.
But then in 2020, I guess when vehicle miles traveled went down because of COVID restrictions, pedestrian miles traveled, for lack of a better term, also went down because the The fatality numbers went down in 2020 during the COVID restrictions, but then they spiked up in 21 and 22.
You know, that's something that we're really looking into, you know, because we're seeing these numbers going up and, you know, that's a trend that, of course, we don't want to see, especially when we're seeing fatalities as a whole across the state go down for all categories.
So what is it specifically about the pedestrian category that's causing it to increase specifically? So we're taking a close look at that to get more information and ramping up our support for communities that need some extra assistance.
Well, looking at the pedestrian numbers, 2019, just before COVID, we had 126 pedestrian fatalities in Virginia.
But then in 2020, I guess when vehicle miles traveled went down because of COVID restrictions, pedestrian miles traveled, for lack of a better term, also went down because the The fatality numbers went down in 2020 during the COVID restrictions, but then they spiked up in 21 and 22.
You know, that's something that we're really looking into, you know, because we're seeing these numbers going up and, you know, that's a trend that, of course, we don't want to see, especially when we're seeing fatalities as a whole across the state go down for all categories.
So what is it specifically about the pedestrian category that's causing it to increase specifically? So we're taking a close look at that to get more information and ramping up our support for communities that need some extra assistance.
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