"David BookerThe impact separated David Booker's skull from the bones in his neck, left his brain bleeding, tore a lung and caused internal injuries, according to an autopsy report. Doctors declared him brain-dead a day later. With little sign of a police investigation, Smith fruitlessly sought surveillance video from a nearby McDonald's. He stood vigil on Jackson Avenue for days, hoping to spot a heavy Fordtruck with a shattered headlight - until, Smith said, people started looking at him as if he was crazy."
"Booker's death in September 2022 fit an escalating pattern on America's roads. Between 2010 and 2023, yearly deaths caused by cars and trucks striking pedestrians rose 70 percent, an examination of federal data and other public records by The Washington Post shows. City by city across the United States, the surge - from 4,302 in 2010 to 7,314 deaths in 2023 - largely occurred on roads with a few things in common."
An individual was fatally struck while crossing seven lanes of Jackson Avenue; a broken headlight fragment suggested a utility truck, and the case remains an unsolved hit-and-run. The collision separated the skull from neck bones, caused brain bleeding, a torn lung and internal injuries; doctors declared the victim brain-dead. Yearly U.S. pedestrian deaths rose 70 percent from 4,302 in 2010 to 7,314 in 2023. Fatalities are concentrated on multilane thoroughfares that cut through economically distressed neighborhoods and fading commercial strips, with higher incidence in cities and stretches like Jackson Avenue in Memphis.
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