Louisville,KY : Fatal pedestrian crashes on rise in Louisville on August, Sunday 27th 2017

Jennifer Tschida was waiting in a parking lot on 3rd Street Road for a late-night taco truck to open when a car suddenly careened toward her.

The Chevrolet Impala plowed into the crowd, striking two vehicles and 11 people, according to a police report. Tschida said her brother-in-law shoved her aside as a bumper hurtled by.

“Had he not thrown me out of the way, it probably would have decapitated me,” she recalled last week, stopping at the scene for the first time since the January 29 wreck. “Because it was going strong and fast and hard and right to my head.”

But two people died in the crash, which marked the start of a deadly year. As fall approaches, Louisville is on pace to record the most fatal pedestrian collisions in at least a decade, a WDRB News analysis of state data shows.

Through mid-August, 18 crashes between vehicles and people on foot have led to 19 deaths – as many or more than occurred each full year from 2010


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Fatal pedestrian crashes on rise in Louisville