If one looks at pedestrian vs. motor vehicle fatalities and injuries in the Denver Metro by looking at easily-available public databases, then the inescapable conclusion is that this phenomenon is highly correlated with urban poverty.  The pedestrian fatality "hotspots" in Denver are found where higher-speed Colorado state highways traverse census tracts with markedly elevated poverty rates.  The European cities that have made enormous progress in pedestrian fatality reduction all have done so without the barriers posed by high levels of wealth and income disparity.  However, cost-effective incremental progress on this problem is available to Denver if it is approached as a public health issue.