Sometime around 2009, American roads started to become deadlier for pedestrians, particularly at night. Fatalities have risen since, reversing the effects of decades of safety improvements.

Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author known for his post-apocalyptic novel "The Road" and dark American Westerns such as "Blood Meridian," has died at 89, his publisher, Knopf ...

“We (the witness and her mother-in-law) were driving home from the casino one night when we saw something dark blocking the road about the size of a trash can,” said one anonymous alleged ...

American roads have grown deadlier for everyone ... increased pedestrian death toll was almost entirely happening after dark and on urban arterial roads—this has continued to be true through ...