by Nicole Brunet | Apr 4, 2024 | News, Vision Zero
Even one traffic fatality is unacceptable — especially for a Vision Zero city — and yet Philadelphia ended 2023 with record high pedestrian and bicyclist deaths. No one wants this year to follow that terrible trend, and we’ve been closely monitoring...
by Nicole Brunet | Nov 20, 2023 | Biking in Philly, Crash, News, Vision Zero
Over 100 cyclists rode in honor of traffic crash victims; pedestrian and bicyclist deaths reach 40-year high PHILADELPHIA, PA – Today, over 100 families of traffic crash victims, community members, and faith leaders gathered on World Day of Remembrance for Road...
by John Boyle | Mar 3, 2023 | Biking Outside The Region, Biking the Region, News, Vision Zero
The only acceptable number of traffic deaths is zero. We are saddened by the loss of a 16 year-old teenager who was struck and killed by a driver while trying to cross Route 539 on the Union Transportation Trail (UTT) in Monmouth County, NJ during the AM Rush Hour on...
by Lor Song | Dec 1, 2021 | News
The Philadelphia Police Accident Investigation Division (AID) is responsible for documenting and preparing evidence for charges in traffic-related crashes and up to now, has been doing so with very limited resources. Philadelphia has 21 police districts and but only...
by Sarah Clark Stuart | May 14, 2021 | News
Despite 2020 being a horrific year for traffic crashes in Philadelphia — 153 people were killed, a 78 percent increase over 2019 — total crashes on Roosevelt Boulevard, which received automated enforcement cameras in July 2020, actually dropped....