In the eight years since Sacramento’s City Council made a “Vision Zero” pledge to end traffic fatalities by 2027, more than 300 people have died on city streets.
Traffic deaths are often conveyed through such numbers.
We dash off an imprecise total (“more than 300 people have died”), note the death rate per 100,000 residents (in the first 11 months of 2024, it’s just over six deaths per 100,000) or throw in an annual average (data from UC Berkeley’s Transportation Injury Mapping System as well as data from the coroner show that the Sacramento Police Department has investigated, on average, 36 fatal crashes per year since Vision Zero)…