Be careful walking around Brooklyn.
Kings County had the highest number of pedestrian and cyclist fatalities last year, when 48 people were killed in collisions with cars, according to a new analysis of NYPD data released yesterday.
The borough was also home to more than one- third of all of the city’s crashes that resulted in injuries to cyclists and pedestrians in 2012, with 5,377 people hurt.
The citywide total for pedestrian-cyclist injuries was 15,465, according to the analysis by Streetsblog, a Web site that advocates for pedestrians and cyclists.
The number of people killed citywide in crashes with cars was 155 — 19 cyclists and 136 pedestrians.
Manhattan, with just under a million fewer residents than Brooklyn, came in second for injuries and fatalities, Streetsblog found.
Some 41 Manhattan pedestrians and cyclists were killed in motor-vehicle accidents, Streetsblog found. Another 3,959 were injured.
Queens — the second- most-populous borough behind Brooklyn — had the third-worst record, with 3,483 pedestrians and cyclists injured and 40 killed.
The Bronx had 2,142 pedestrians and cyclists injured and 19 killed.
Staten Island — which has a high percentage of motorists — had 504 pedestrians and cyclists hurt in accidents and only seven killed.
More pedestrians were killed in accidents last year than motorists, according to the Streetsblog analysis, which found 80 drivers died in collisions. Another 44 car passengers were killed.
Of the over 15,000 people injured last year in motor-vehicle collisions, the vast majority were pedestrians.
Streetsblog found that 11,621 pedestrians were injured and 3,844 cyclists.
The Web site is releasing the data to pressure the NYPD to ramp up investigations into motor-vehicle accidents. The department rarely presses charges against drivers who kill pedestrians if they are sober at the time of the accident. Only one motorist who was not drunk was charged with killing a pedestrian in 2012, according to Streetsblog.
Streetsblog compiled the crash figures by combing through NYPD end-of-the-year data.