Mini-Walking Fatality Story: The “‘Barf’ Green Pickup”

(Note: This post may be too graphic and disturbing for some readers. Consideration of this advised.) Better Burque continues to comb through APD crash reports and investigations for those killed walking our roadways in 2017 and 2018. As you can easily imagine, these reports are filled with grisly details and somber humanity. We’ll be writing… Read More Mini-Walking Fatality Story: The “‘Barf’ Green Pickup”

Unofficial Total of NM Walking Fatalities for 2018: 83

Preliminary numbers are in from UNM’s Traffic Research Unit on 2018 roadway deaths, with 83 identified deaths to those walking NM roadways last year. Here is a month-by-month breakdown from TRU: The numbers continue to show the relentless trend of record/near record deaths to pedestrians, in particular higher percentages of walkers killed in relation to… Read More Unofficial Total of NM Walking Fatalities for 2018: 83