“I always wear a reflective vest when I go out at night. “I don’t know why so many people in San Antonio want to wear black when they go out at night,” said Gianotti, perhaps forgetting the colors of a popular local basketball team - silver and black. TxDOT’s Gianotti said poor urban lighting and hard-to-see clothing contribute to many crashes. to midnight, with the greatest number coming during the 6-7 p.m. Nearly half of those severe pedestrian crashes occurred from 6 p.m. The study identified 76 areas in San Antonio where two or more crashes within a half mile of each other resulted in a death or serious injury.Īmong the city’s worst streets for pedestrian-auto crashes, Gonzales said, were Culebra Road, Zarzamora Street and Fredericksburg Road.
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One statistic in the report caught the attention of city officials - a full third of all fatal and serious crashes involving pedestrians occurred on just 1 percent of San Antonio’s roads. The decline was publicized by the city’s Vision Zero San Antonio program, based on an analysis of data from the San Antonio Police Department and the Texas Department of Transportation’s Crash Report Information System.Ĭompared to 2016, deaths from motorcycle accidents fell from 28 to 16 in 2017 declined from 66 to 46 for pedestrian deaths, and from five to two for bicycle fatalities.
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An avid cyclist herself, Gonzales said some features such as bike lanes have unexpected traffic-calming effects - the more bikes present, the more drivers seemingly obey speed limits, she suggested. “I definitely think this decline is due to a collective effort, involving things like better engineering, dedicated bike lanes, improvements in crosswalks and better lighting,” said District 5 Councilwoman Shirley Gonzales. San Antonio bucked that trend, returning to a number of deaths at the low end of routine for recent years except for the 2016 jump. The Insurance Council of Texas reports that since 2010, traffic deaths in the state have increased by 34 percent - a logical rise that generally can be attributed to Texas’ auto-centric growth and lower gasoline prices, experts say - but more specifically to cell phone-related distracted driving and, in some counties, increased fatalities involving trucks in Texas’ revitalized oil patch.
The welcomed reduction in local traffic deaths - 145 in 2017 compared to 198 in 2016 - came in a calendar year that saw 3,752 people killed on Texas roadways, itself a drop from the state’s 2016 total of 3,850 after years of increases, according to current TxDOT figures. 281 - like flashing signs warning of wrong-way drivers - have reduced the number of crashes, but attributing the 2016 spike or last year’s decline to any one thing is very difficult.” “I know the city’s programs are working, and I know our efforts on U.S. “I have no answer for it,” said John Gianotti, an engineer for the Texas Department of Transportation. Traffic fatalities in San Antonio declined by 26 percent last year compared to an especially deadly 2016 - 53 fewer deaths - but while relieved city officials and traffic engineers are crediting a number of programs for the improvement, few could venture a clear cause-and-effect for the numbers. Caleb Downs /San Antonio Express-News Show More Show Less Police said they believe she was trying to beat the train across the tracks near Florida Street and Hoefgen Avenue.
5, 2017, by a train near downtown San Antonio. Caleb Downs /Caleb Downs Show More Show Less 5 of5 A woman was struck and killed Dec. Caleb Downs /Caleb Downs Show More Show Less 4 of5 A woman was struck and killed Dec. Caleb Downs /Caleb Downs Show More Show Less 3 of5 Police and paramedics responded to a major accident that injured multiple people on Callaghan Road near Texas 151. Ray Whitehouse / for the San Antonio Express-News Ray Whitehouse /for the San Antonio Express-New Show More Show Less 2 of5 A man was killed July 25, 2017, in a car crash shown here on the North Side.
1 of5 Fire Department crews worked the scene of a car crash on Interstate 37 North just south of downtown on January 27, 2017.
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