US Department of Transportation

Roadway environment, vehicle type, and design, weather, and road user behavior contribute to pedestrian crashes. Learn more about how you can help with pedestrian safety. 

Learn the updated statistics about older drivers and how they can be safe in the older drivers chapter in the Countermeasures workbook.

Countermeasures That Work is intended to be reference guide for State Highway Safety Offices to help select effective, science based traffic safety countermeasures to address highway safety problems. 

A summary chart of state-based information on programs supporting older drivers in several states, including successful strategies, alternate transportation, and funding sources. 

Pedestrian bystander animation video by NHTSA. 

As the popularity of e-bikes skyrockets, the CHP is launching an online e-bike safety and training program to help keep commuters and recreational cyclists safe. Read the press release to learn more.

For the purposes of this fact sheet, the term “older”—in relation to population, drivers, occupants, and nonoccupants—refers to people 65 and older.

NHTSA Pedestrian Fact sheet for 2023. This fact sheet defines a pedestrian involved in a motor vehicle traffic crash as any person on foot, walking, running, jogging, hiking, sitting, or lying down.

Learn how limited movement from severe arthritis affects driving.

Learn about how to our older drivers safety on the road by reading the NHTSA older page.