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<br />dartout crashes, in addition to unsafe pedestrian behaviors. Creating more pedestrian-friendly crossings <br />by including curb extensions, traffic-calming measures, and other features may also be useful in reducing <br />many of these crashes. It should be mentioned that alcohol use by pedestrians and motorists may also <br />contribute to pedestrian crash experience. However, reliable information on alcohol involvement was not <br />available from local crash reports; therefore, such analysis was not possible for this study. <br /> <br />CRASH SEVERITY <br /> <br />An analysis was conducted to compare pedestrian crash severity on marked and unmarked crosswalks <br />(figure 23). Crash severity did not differ significantly between marked and unmarked crosswalks on two- <br />lane roads. On multilane roads, there was evidence of more fatal (type K) and type A injury pedestrian <br />crashes at marked crosswalks compared to unmarked crosswalks, although the sample sizes were too <br />small for statistical reliability. This result probably is due to older pedestrians being more likely than <br />other age groups to walk in marked rather than unmarked crosswalks. Furthermore, older pedestrians are <br />much more likely to sustain fatal and serious injuries than younger pedestrians. As mentioned earlier, <br />speed limits of 56.3 km/h (35 mi/h) and higher were associated with a greater percentage of fatal and/or <br />type A injuries (43 percent), whereas sites with lower speed limits had 23 percent of pedestrian crashes <br />resulting in fatal and/or type A injuries. <br /> <br /> 43