The Seattle Post-Intelligencer recently ran an article linking pedestrian deaths to an individual’s socio-economic standing. The article even points out that ethnicity is playing a part in who walks and who drives. Hispanic people die in pedestrian-vehicle accidents at a higher rate than any other racial or ethnic group in every Southern state except Arkansas, Florida and Tennessee, where only blacks die at a higher rate (according to 2002 data reported by states to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Nearly two out of every five pedestrian-vehicle deaths in the U.S. occur in the US’s southern states.