As The Washington Post reported in 2019, children are three-times more likely to be hit and killed by a car on Halloween than on any other day of the year. What's worse, children 4 to 8 are ten-times more likely to die in a pedestrian-vehicle accident on the holiday. Those conclusions were reached using federal traffic data on fatal pedestrian accidents from 2004 through 2018. Setting the timeframe much longer, a 2019 study "Pedestrian Fatalities Associated With Halloween in the United States" published on JAMA Pediatrics on the JAMA Network used four decades of data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
That study showed similar findings: Pedestrians killed by cars jumped 43% on Halloween, with the highest increase among minors, and especially children under 8 (via WPR). As WPR goes on to explain, The Hill Law study found there was increased risk for pedestrians during any holiday season, even the 4th of July in the summer. The worst months of all, though, were October through December.
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