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POLICE IN NEW YORK ARE
INVESTIGATING A CRASH THAT
INVOLVED THE BASKETBALL COACH.
HE WENT RIGHT TO POLICE
AFTER THE CRASH AND WAS NOT
UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL
OR DRUGS.
RALPH I A KNOTTY HAS IS STUDY --
RALPH IANNOTTI HAS MORE.
Reporter: HE HILL IN KILLED
A MAN WITH HIS CAR.
THE VICTIM WAS WALKING OUTSIDE
OF HIS VEHICLE FOLLOWING AN
UNRELATED CRASH DUE TO THE BAD
WEATHER, POLICE SAY THAT HE
VEHICLE THEN HIT HIM.
THE COACH HAS COOPERATED FULLY
WITH POLICE AND ISSUED A
STATEMENT SAYING THAT HE IS
HEARTBROKEN AND WILL NOT
COMMENT FURTHER.
IN 2017 ALONE THERE WERE
6000 PEDESTRIANS DEATHS.
Reporter: SINCE 2009,
PEDESTRIAN FIDELITY'S ARE UP
45%.
A NEW STUDY IS CHECKING
PEDESTRIAN AUTO BRAKE SYSTEMS,
THE CAMERA AND RADAR WILL
DETECT PEOPLE WALKING THEN
ALERTS THE DRIVER THEN APPLIES
TO BREAK, IF NEEDED.
THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO
PREVENT FIDELITY'S IS TO AVOID
THE CRASH AND THESE SYSTEMS WARN
THE DRIVER AND MITIGATE OR
AVOID THE CRASH WITH A
PEDESTRIAN.
SOME OF THE TOP-PERFORMING
VEHICLES, THE SUBARU FORRESTER
AND THE VOLVO.
THE WORST PERFORMER, THE BMW X1.
IT DIDN'T BREAK OR IT DIDN'T
MITIGATE THE SPEED ENOUGH FOR
US TO GIVE IT POINTS.
Reporter: ALTHOUGH, THE
ANALOGY IS NEW BUT IT MADE A
DIFFERENCE, IT SHOWS THAT THIS
I SAID SYSTEM HAS REDUCED THE
