
The Road Less Traveled: Pedestrian Safety
The Delaware beaches are adding new safety precautions along Coastal Highway due to past issues with pedestrian and bicyclist crashes with oncoming vehicles. Over 80,000 vehicles use Coastal Highway on a typical summer weekend. From 2018 to 2021, there has been 69 pedestrian and bicycle crashes from Lewes to Fenwick, and ten have been fatal. Delaware ranks as the third most dangerous state when it comes to pedestrian deaths. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, Delaware’s beach