{"id":316594,"date":"2026-06-23T08:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/316594\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T08:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:01:08","slug":"florida-ranked-as-5th-most-dangerous-state-for-pedestrians-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/316594\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida ranked as 5th most dangerous state for pedestrians, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; A new report lists Florida as one of the most dangerous states for pedestrians. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Florida ranks 5th, according to the report from Smart Growth America. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They tracked how many pedestrians died last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">TRENDING: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/06\/23\/teen-charged-deadly-crash-following-ocala-sportsplex-robbery\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Teen charged in deadly crash following Ocala Sportsplex robbery<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Adjusted for population, Tampa ranked number eight, Melbourne is 11, Sarasota is 15, Jacksonville is 16, and Orlando is ranked 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The metro areas they surveyed were larger than any in our viewing area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The most dangerous state for pedestrians was New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; A new report lists Florida as one of the most dangerous states for pedestrians.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7961,28,30,29,4735,1123,4454,127072,8829],"class_list":["post-316594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-dangerous","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-ncfl","tag-pedestrians","tag-reports","tag-smart-growth-america","tag-survey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}