ADOT recently released 2011 Crash Facts.
In summary: The overall traffic death toll bounced up after several years of significant declines. The number of fatalities is up 9% year-over-year, despite a 3% decrease in the number of crashes.
Year over year: ped injuries and fatalites were nearly flat; bicyclist injuries were also nearly identical. There were 23 cyclists killed in 2011 (versus 19 in 2010)
Here’s a news piece: azcentral.com/news/articles/20120816arizona-road-deaths-increase It has a graph of fatals per 100million VMT which appears to be drawn wrong; for example line chart shows Arizona’s virtually on top of the overall-US figure for 2009, and 2010 but that’s not correct; although in recent years Arizona has been closing the gap, it remains markedly higher than overall-US:
2009: 1.14 vs. 1.31
2010: 1.11 vs. 1.27
It’s a pretty small graph but it’s clearly not right — the Arizona Line is drawn incorrectly for those two years.
http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/20120903woman-middle-phoenix-road-struck-killed.html
“The driver was not impaired and does not face any charges, Holmes said.”
Unfortunately, the article is missing a very important detail that would determine whether the motorist violated the Basic Speed Law: whether the woman was wearing dark or light clothing.
Feds have just released:
Early Estimate of Motor Vehicle Traffic Fatalities for The First Half (January–June) of 2012 showing a (prelimiminary and estimated) significan increase in 2012 over 2011 — so perhaps Arizona, with the noted increase in 2011 fatals was just one year ahead of time?
Here’s a washingtonpost.com piece on the release.