TABLE 3:  Pedestrian Fatalities & Injuries By Race and Ethnicity — 2000

 

Race/
Ethnicity

Pedestrian Fatal Injuries

2000 (1)

Hospitalized

Pedestrian Injuries 2000 (1)

Total Hospitalized Incidents 2000

Percent Share of Total Incidents

Percent Share of Total Population 1999 (2)

Asian/Pacific Islander 

70

370

440

7.7

11

African American

65

607

672

11.8

7

Hispanic

 

293

1853

2146

37.8

30

Native American

7

10

17

0.3

1

White

 

325

1877

2202

38.7

51

Unknown/
Other

0

206

206

3.6

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Total

 

760

4923

5683

100

100

 

   Note: Totals may not add due to rounding.

   (1) California Department of Health Services, EPIC, California Injury Data.  
   www.applications.dhs.ca.gov/epicdata/STpedestrian.html. Data is based on fatal hospitalized 
   and nonfatal hospitalized pedestrian incidents only.

 

   (2) California Department of Finance, “Race/Ethnic Population Estimates: Components of Change
   for California Counties April 1990 to July 1999.” http://www.dof.ca.gov/HTML/DEMOGRAP/
   Race-eth.xls.