The study, which was published on Tuesday in the peer-reviewed Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, looked at traffic casualty rates in the United Kingdom from 2013 to 2017.
According to the researchers’ findings, crashes with pedestrians were twice as frequent with electric and hybrid vehicles as with gasoline and diesel vehicles, and three times more likely in urban areas than in rural areas.
Based on data from 916,713 occurrences involving casualties, the researchers found that from 2013 to 2017, the average annual pedestrian casualty rate per 100 million miles of road travel was 5.16 for electric and hybrid cars and 2.40 for.
