PEDESTRIANS continue to feature highly in road fatalities with 14 killed since the start of the year.

“If we are to go below 300 this year we have to get pedestrian deaths under control,” Deidrie Sinclair, analyst at the Transport Ministry’s Road Safety Unit commented yesterday.

According to Sinclair pedestrian fatality, which accounted for 37 per cent of traffic fatalities last year showed no signs of reducing.

At final count 115 pedestrians were killed from a total 317 traffic deaths in 2010.

Sinclair said that most of the pedestrian deaths so far this year resulted from people walking carelessly into the roadway.

She admitted however that at times there was no adequate provision for pedestrians and implored motorists to slow down especially in areas where there were schools.

“If motorists slowed many of these deaths would have been avoided,” said Sinclair.

But even as pedestrian deaths continue to alarm, overall traffic fatalities have nonetheless shown a downward trend over last year’s figures..

Since January 32 people have been killed on the roadways from 19 fatal collisions. This compares to 41 deaths from 40 crashes over the same period in 2010.