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Kansas City has reduced traffic fatalities by 30% in 2025 through its Vision Zero program, which includes road redesigns and safety infrastructure, but advocates emphasize the need for faster and more equitable improvements to reach zero traffic deaths by 2030.
Two people, including a child, were killed and three others injured when a car crashed into a San Francisco bus stop. The victims' identities were not released, and the cause of the crash is still unclear. The incident has sparked grief and outrage, with pedestrian advocates calling for action to improve safety in the city. This marks the city's fifth and sixth pedestrian deaths this year, prompting renewed calls for San Francisco to more aggressively use tools to prevent traffic deaths.
Hoboken, New Jersey, has successfully eliminated traffic deaths for seven years by implementing Vision Zero guidelines, including the removal of parking spaces near intersections to improve visibility. While the plan has faced criticism from some business owners, the city's approach also includes lower speed limits, staggered traffic lights, and infrastructure changes such as widening curbs and shortening crosswalks. Other major U.S. cities have integrated aspects of the program into their safety plans, and states like California have enacted laws prohibiting parking near intersections to enhance pedestrian safety.
A decade after the adoption of Vision Zero in the U.S., the goal of eliminating traffic fatalities remains elusive, with some successes but many challenges. While some cities have seen a drop in roadway fatalities and have successfully implemented Vision Zero principles, others continue to struggle, facing pushback from residents and drivers, as well as obstacles from state rules. Despite efforts to lower speed limits, make streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists, and redesign dangerous intersections, the fight to end traffic deaths remains an uphill battle, with the ultimate goal still seeming far off.
Ethan Boyes, a 44-year-old track cycling champion, died after being struck by a car while riding in San Francisco's Presidio area. The incident has highlighted the city's struggles to reduce traffic fatalities, with bicycle safety activists calling for improvements to the heavily used cycling route connecting Golden Gate Park and the Presidio. San Francisco is working towards a "Vision Zero" plan of eliminating traffic deaths by 2024, but recorded its largest number of traffic fatalities in 2022. Boyes was the reigning masters track world champion in the men's 40-44 age group for the time trial and sprint events.
Professional cyclist and champion sprinter Ethan Boyes was killed in a traffic accident in San Francisco when a car struck him while he was riding his bicycle. Boyes, a well-known figure in San Francisco bicycling and track racing, died from his injuries. The driver suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Boyes held the national record for Men’s 40-44 Sprints and was a 10-time national champion throughout his cycling career. The United States Park Police is investigating the circumstances surrounding the accident, which occurred on federal land. The SF Bicycle Coalition is demanding the implementation of safety improvements to prevent traffic fatalities in the city.
A driver in Brooklyn was charged with two counts of manslaughter and two counts of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle after speeding through a red light and killing a driver and a pedestrian. The deadly crash happened on 18th Avenue, a street that was recently removed from a list of New York's most dangerous corridors due to a decrease in fatality and severe injury rates. Despite the Vision Zero initiative, which aims to reduce traffic deaths, the number of pedestrian deaths in the city remains high, with almost half occurring in the most perilous corridors.