Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about traffic deaths

Leah Shahum, director of the Vision Zero Network, at Denver's Vision Zero Summit. Photo: Evan Semon

Expert: Traffic Deaths Are a Public Health Crisis and Equity Issue That Demand Hancock’s Leadership

By David Sachs | Mar 9, 2017 | No Comments

It's past time elected officials like Mayor Michael Hancock and City Council members, as well as city department heads, dealt seriously with an actual public health crisis: traffic deaths and serious injuries.

The number of people killed while walking or biking on Denver streets is more than 50 percent higher than DPW's Vision Zero dashboard says. Source: Denver PD and DPW Vision Zero Dashboard

DPW’s Vision Zero Dashboard Seriously Undercounts Denver Traffic Deaths

By David Sachs | Mar 1, 2017 | 5 Comments

Denver Public Works puts the total number of people killed between 2012 and 2015 while walking and biking at 51. Documents from the Denver Police Department tell a different story.

So far this year, 57 people have lost their lives to traffic violence in Denver -- eight more than all of 2015.

In Memory of Those Who Lost Their Lives to Dangerous Denver Streets

By David Sachs | Nov 21, 2016 | 1 Comment

The names and faces of the people walking and biking who needlessly lost their lives just trying to get around Denver this year (so far).

CDOT Seeks High-Tech Safety Fix While Its Streets Remain Stuck in the 1950s

By David Sachs | Nov 7, 2016 | No Comments

So far this year, drivers have killed seven people walking and biking on Denver’s wide and fast urban highways, overseen in part by the Colorado Department of Transportation. Now CDOT is asking for help fix the problem with tech. The agency launched a contest Friday that “calls on citizens to concept innovative solutions” to keep pedestrians and […]

Denver Pedestrian and Cyclist Deaths Have Already Surpassed 2015’s Total

By David Sachs | Nov 4, 2016 | 2 Comments

It’s been a deadly week on Denver streets. Drivers have killed three people simply trying to cross the street. One victim, whom Denver PD has not named, was struck while crossing in a wheelchair at 29th and Colorado. Another, Karina Pulec, was trying to cross 13th at Broadway when Norlan Estrada-Reyes allegedly hit her with […]

A Driver, Not a Car, Killed Colleen O’Connor. It Was a Crash, Not an Accident.

By David Sachs | Sep 2, 2016 | 7 Comments

Colleen O’Connor’s family, friends, and Denver Post colleagues are remembering her 60-year-long life after a driver named Jesus Carreno, 23, ended it Wednesday night on 1st Avenue near Downing Street. Her death marks the ninth pedestrian killed this year by a driver in Denver. O’Connor recently wrote about street improvements on Broadway meant to make […]

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