AUSTIN (KXAN) – A man died on Wednesday night when he was hit and killed by a car as he was changing a tire on his own car.

The accident happened around 8 p.m. in the 1700 block of Deloney Street  near East Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

Police said the man was changing a tire on the street when a car drove by and hit him. The driver of the car did stop and stay at the scene. 

The man died a short time later at the hospital.

Meanwhile, crashes between cars and people on the road have been on the rise this year and even rose sharply in 2011 citywide.

Pedestrian deaths

South I-35 has been deadly in recent months for pedestrians, all while pedestrian crashes have been on the rise.  

Some 17 people were killed in auto-pedestrian crashes in Austin in 2011, up from 10 deaths in 2010.

Officers have issued more than 1,000 citations to drivers for not yielding to pedestrians and 600 citations to pedestrians not following the law.

“So far we have had 6 pedestrians killed trying to cross major highways,” said APD Lt. Eli Reyes. “These are needless deaths. Pedestrians need to make sure they cross the highway at designated locations [such as] at a bridge where it is safe for them to do so.

Reyes continued, :We cannot continue to allow people to cross the highway at the rate we have now because of these deaths were fully preventable.”

Interestingly, many of the pedestrian-involved crashes did not occur during major events when there were more pedestrians on the road.

“Actually the more pedestrians are on the road, the more awareness there is on the part of drivers that there are a lot of pedestrians on the road,” said Reyes. “So during the times such as South By Southwest or ACL there is a heightened awareness on the part of drivers to be on the lookout for pedestrians.”

APD has documented 128 intersections citywide that are dangerous for pedestrians — those with three or more accidents since 2008.

Police are being reassigned to the city’s most dangerous areas for pedestrians. A new strategy focuses on groups of officers saturating areas where there have been a large number of auto-pedestrian crashes.

Most dangerous intersections for walkers

                Congress Cesar Chavez 8     5th Lavaca 8     Lamar St Johns 7     Congress Woodward (Lightsey) 7     100 4th (E*W) 6     9300 I 35 S WF 6     Riverside Dr Crossing Pl 6     Bluebonnet Lamar 6     700 7th E 6     Congress 4th 6     600 Congress S 5     Lavaca 6th 5     Lamar Manchaca Rd 5     Jollyville Braker 5     Lamar Rutland 5     1st St Riverside 5     1600 Congress S 5     Jones Manchaca 5     Barton Springs 1st St 5     1300 Congress S 5     100 8th (e*w) 5     600 1st S 5     Barton Springs Robert E Lee 5     Guadalupe 38th St W 5     1700 Rutland 5     Congress Barton Springs 5     Congress Alpine/Pickle 4     Riverside Tinnin Ford (also Burton) 4     1000 41ST ST E 4     Lamar Rundberg 4     Congress Av 7th St E 4     Congress 2nd 4     100 Riverside (EW) 4     5700 Manchaca 4     Riverside Royal Crest 4     Riverside Dr Montopolis 4     Nueces 21st 4     Airport 12th 4     Red River 12th 4     500 San Jacinto 4     1200 Congress S 4     1100 AIRPORT BLVD 4     Congress 3rd 4     Guadalupe 5th 4     Capital of Texas Waymaker 4     Barton Springs Riverside 4     9200 North Plz 4     Capital of Texas Wildridge 4     Guadalupe 29th St 4     45th Shoal Creek 4     800 Rutland 4     7th San Jacinto 4     2400 Guadalupe 4     11066 Pecan Park Bl 4     Speedway 30th 3     600 Barton Springs 3     Manchaca Slaughter 3     45th Red River 3     2000 Oltorf E 3     12100 Metric Bl 3     600 Red River 3     2300 Lamar S 3     San Jacinto 4th 3     2500 Congress S 3     Parmer Metric 3     MLK San Jacinto 3     3900 Congress S 3     2500 Riverside E 3     Lamar 51st 3     Congress S Industrial 3     Barton Springs Dawson 3     3500 Lamar S 3     2215 Town Lake Ci 3     I 35 SB Svc Rd 6th St 3     Guadalupe 2nd 3     Dean Keeton Harris Park (Park Pl) 3     Congress MLK 3     800 Rundberg W 3     Wm Cannon Bluff Springs 3     I 35 SB Svc Rd 7th 3     710 Ben White E 3     24th Nueces 3     2200 Guadalupe 3     1st St Ben White EB Svc Rd 3     San Antonio 3rd W 3     Red River 8th St 3     Lamar Barton Skyway 3     7th Red River 3     5th West 3     1900 William Cannon W 3     1900 Oltorf E 3     Speedway 35th 3     Guadalupe Dean Keeton 3     Riverside Grove Blvd 3     Congress Oltorf 3     7th Pleasant Valley 3     4400 Riverside E 3     1600 Barton Springs 3     12901 I 35 N EF 3     Wm Cannon S. Congress 3     Manor Susquehanna 3     Lamar Morrow 3     8900 Lamar N 3     8071 Lamar Bl N 3     Riverside Wickersham 3     I 35 NB Svc Rd Ben White E eb 3     Guadalupe 8th 3     500 6th E 3     300 MLK W 3     Rutland Mearns Meadow 3     Brodie Silk Oak 3     Nueces 5th 3     Lamar Lamar Square 3     6600 Elm Creek 3     500 5th W 3     400 7th E 3     2100 Burton 3     1900 Guadalupe 3     Congress Av 5th St 3     2110 Slaughter W 3     Lamar 10th 3     West Gate Jones 3     San Jacinto 6th St 3     500 Canyon Ridge W 3     2200 Oltorf E 3     11900 Jollyville 3     Lamar Oltorf 3     9616 Lamar N 3