# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/death-of-elaine-herzberg
# Generated: 2026-08-16T11:18:20.359Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/death-of-elaine-herzberg"
name: "Death of Elaine Herzberg"
slug: "death-of-elaine-herzberg"
description: "The death of Elaine Herzberg was the first recorded case of a pedestrian fatality involving a self-driving car, after a collision that occurred late in the evening of March 18, 2018. Herzberg was pushing a bicycle across a four-lane road in Tempe, Arizona, United States, when she was struck by an Uber test vehicle, which was operating in self-drive mode with a human safety backup driver sitting in the driving seat. Herzberg was taken to the local hospital where she died of her injuries."
tagline: "First pedestrian fatality caused by self-driving car"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1968-08-02"
deathDate: "2018-03-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.29
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.680825333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%D1%8C_%D0%AD%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD_%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%86%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3"
    title: "Смерть Элейн Херцберг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%A9_%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B2%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%BA"
    title: "وفاة إلين هيرزبرغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accident_d'Uber"
    title: "Accident d'Uber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg"
    title: "Death of Elaine Herzberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9c%C3%A8s_d'Elaine_Herzberg"
    title: "Décès d'Elaine Herzberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kematian_Elaine_Herzberg"
    title: "Kematian Elaine Herzberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morte_di_Elaine_Herzberg"
    title: "Morte di Elaine Herzberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50810139"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump