[1] US department of transportation data from 2009 reported that 4,092 pedestrians were killed and 13.6% of them were under the influence of alcohol, drugs or medication.
[citation needed] Traumatic pedestrian injury results in nearly 4,000 hospitalisations in Canada yearly.
[citation needed] The outcome of these injuries come from the interaction of environmental factors changing.
[6] In Australia, men are the biggest culprits with a study done between 1998–2002 with 38% of fatal incidents to pedestrians happening to males ages 15–54, and out of those 78% were over the legal limit to drive.
[7] In 2015 Spanish authorities proposed rules allowing police officers to issue breathalyzer tests to pedestrians involved in accidents.