LAS VEGAS ( FOX5 ) — Six Las Vegas Valley pedestrians have been struck and killed since Nov. 1, and safety advocates warn about the dangers on our roads with shrinking daylight hours.

The warning comes after the latest crash involving a child: on Monday at 4:38 p.m. police said an 11-year-old girl was badly hurt crossing Lake Mead Blvd. by Pecos Road. Police said the girl was outside a marked crosswalk.

Around 75% of pedestrian deaths happen from dusk to dawn, according to Ped Safe Vegas, a part of the Transportation Research Center at UNLV

“Two of the [fatal] crashes that we had in the first part of the month were in fact in that time frame that would have been light. But because of standard time, it was dark,” said Erin Breen, director of UNLV’s Road Equity Alliance Project. “This

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