Pedestrians: The Leading Fatality Group

NTSA data is consistent on one grim point: pedestrians are the single largest group of road-crash fatalities in Kenya. Not drivers, not passengers — the people on foot. Any serious road-safety education has to put pedestrians at the centre.

Why pedestrians bear the worst of it, in this module's terms:

• Zero protection — the full protection gap. Every collision transfers its energy directly to a body, which is what the survival curve in Speed & Stopping Distances describes.
• They share the road physically. Kenyan roads are mixed-use by default, with pedestrians on the carriageway edge wherever footpaths don't exist — which is often.
• They cross unpredictably, most of them away from designated crossings. The marked-crossing model therefore under-protects them, and the driver's scan has to fill the gap.

The driver's duty follows directly: on any road without a separate footpath, treat the road edge as occupied, scan for crossers at every gap between vehicles and structures, and carry the margin the survival curve demands. Pedestrian safety isn't a sub-topic of vulnerable-user driving on Kenyan roads — it's the main event.