TxDOT volunteers held up pedestrian safety signs along College Station roads this week as part of a statewide push timed to the longer nights of late fall, the season when the agency says crashes involving people on foot peak.
According to TxDOT, crashes in Bryan and College Station killed 10 pedestrians in 2025, KBTX reported.
A recent local death
The campaign came about 10 days after a man walking across Wellborn Road at Holleman Drive was struck and killed shortly before 5 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 1. College Station police said the southbound driver had a green light and that the pedestrian appeared to have crossed against a "Do Not Walk" signal, KBTX reported. Police said officers arrested the driver after a DWI investigation.
The case remains under investigation, and the driver has not been convicted.
"And so, it's a very timely campaign," Bob Colwell, a spokesperson for TxDOT's Bryan District, told KBTX, referring to that crash.
What the state numbers show
Statewide, 694 people walking were killed by vehicles in 2025, according to TxDOT. The agency says close to one in five of those deaths happened in October and November, the two months with the most pedestrian crashes, and that 68% of pedestrian deaths and serious injuries last year happened after dark.
Pedestrian deaths fell 10% from 2024 to 2025, TxDOT says, but people on foot still accounted for 18% of all traffic fatalities in Texas.
Colwell told KBTX the statewide count has dropped from more than 800 in 2021 and that TxDOT views the decline as a sign the campaigns are working.
