Steve Hayward at Power Line has 3 charts, the first showing that motor vehicle fatality rates have declined dramatically over the past 100 years. The second shows pedestrian fatality rates fell until 2009, after which they began to climb rather steeply.
The third chart (shown below) is the second chart with the advent of the smart phone superimposed to show that shortly after its introduction pedestrian fatalities began to zoom upward. As Hayward notes, it's probably not a coincidence.
