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“ Traffic safety is home grown. We want it to be about us, not government telling people want to do, but us working together as a community,” Wyant said.

Wyant pointed out, last year Sacramento had more traffic fatalities than homicides. There were 46 traffic fatalities and 39 homicides. Wyant emphasized these accidents are preventable. Based on the data, the areas where the highest number of incidents occurred were H Street, J Street, Folsom Boulevard and Broadway. Wyant said speed and impaired driving are the two main causes for major accidents.

Sacramento is the second worse city in California for accidents caused by impaired driving. The Vision Zero plan includes: first, update street design standards to be more up-to-date with our best traffic safety practices, and developing designs for the hot top five corridors where people are dying or suffering major injuries from accidents most often. Second, the plan supports state level, automated speed enforcement. Other states have automated speed enforcement because there are not enough traffic officers on the road to enforce the speed limit. At this time automated speed enforcement is not legal in California. This is something Sacramento would like to pilot to see if it works. Wyant reemphasized in order to lower traffic accidents, we need engineering, education and enforcement. As part of the Vision Zero awareness, Wyant handed out free ‘Drive Slowly’ yard signs to those who wanted one. Wyant

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