Six women were struck by a car on Sunday, making it the second reported pedestrian accident to occur this Memorial Day weekend.
According to WCVB.com, the women, in their 20s, were walking along Beach Road in Orleans when they were hit by a Honda Civic. All were transported to Cape Cod Hospital with serious injuries. This was the second accident to occur on Sunday: an elderly pedestrian was tragically struck and fatally injured while attempting to cross Route 3A in Hingham just around noontime near the entrance of Lincoln Plaza. Police say the man was standing on a sidewalk near an MBTA bus stop and possibly fell or stepped into the street when he was hit. Officials are preliminarily calling both cases accidents.
According to a report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 4,280 pedestrians were killed as a result of motor-vehicle crashes and 70,000 were injured in pedestrian accidents in 2010. The number of pedestrian fatalities in 2010 accounted for 13% of all motor-vehicle accident fatalities and the number of injuries accounted for 3% of the total amount of individuals injured in a traffic accidents.