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Many of the deadliest areas for pedestrians and bicyclists are on busy thoroughfares that form an arch north of uptown, Charlotte Department of Transportation data shows. From 2018 through 2022.

▪ The roughly one-mile stretch of The Plaza, between East 36th Street and Eastway Drive, recorded eight fatalities, including three in August 2019.

▪ South, on East Independence Boulevard between N. Sharon Amity and Wallace roads, vehicles struck five people, killing three.

▪ Five people were killed and another seriously injured on Sunset Road near Interstate 77 in north Charlotte.

▪ Five more were killed and two seriously injured on South Tryon Street between West Arrowood and Steele Creek roads, a distance of about three miles.

In all, vehicles hit and killed about 120 pedestrians and bicyclists during that time and seriously injured roughly 85 more, a Charlotte Observer analysis found. Another 1,900 were hit but suffered minor injuries or no injuries at all.

This story was originally published February 10, 2023 at 6:00 AM.