While the amount of severe and fatal injury collisions across the Bay Area in 2024 went down compared to the year prior, Redwood City saw it more than double, and the most of such collisions in the last five years.
This statistic and others regarding traffic safety, recorded across a five-year period, will be studied at length at the upcoming Redwood City Council meeting Sept. 29.
Compared to 105 cities throughout California with a population between 50,001 and 100,000, Redwood City was ranked the “third worst” for traffic safety, according to 2022 rankings by California’s Office of Traffic Safety.
The data was collected as a part of the city’s Vision Zero strategy and goal to eliminate traffic fatalities and increase equitable mobility. The city has a goal to eliminate transportation-related fatalities and severe injuries by 2030.
Between 2019 and 2024, there were 3,287 collisions in the city. Of these, 18% involved pedestrians and cyclists, and 3% resulted in a fatal or severe injury.
In 2019, there were 596 total collisions in Redwood City. Of those, 264 resulted in injury, and 16 resulted in severe injury or fatality. These numbers dropped during the COVID-19 pandemic, and numbers began to rise again in 2022. In 2024, there were 693 total collisions, of which 332 resulted in injury and 26 resulted in severe injury or fatality.
According to Redwood City Police Department data, the biggest reasons for injury collisions between 2019 and 2024 were speeding, driving under the influence and failure to stop at red lights.
Mapping collisions shows that concentrations of incidents occur in areas designated as “Equity Priority Areas,” according to a staff report.
Pedestrian collisions tend to occur along major corridors such as Broadway, El Camino Real and Woodside Road near Middlefield Road. Bicycle collisions show concentrations at the intersection of Middlefield Road and Woodside Road, along El Camino Real, and near the Caltrain station.
The Redwood City Council will be presenting the data and receive progress updates regarding ongoing traffic safety improvements.
The council will meet at 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 29, at 1017 Middlefield Road.
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While this sounds bad – is it really? Reports show more collisions but was this because more drivers were on the road? We need statistics to show the ratio of how many collisions per 100 cars or per 1000 cars and whether this ratio increased or decreased. Until then, as in many cases, cherry-picked statistics can introduce a false narrative. Meanwhile, I expect this story is a precursor to Redwood City floating tax proposals to fund traffic safety improvements which may not be needed. Perhaps we need more enforcement in major corridors and intersections.
Redwood City - as basically all cities in San Mateo County - decided to become a Vision Zero city.
No one forced Democrats to do that. It was their own decision. At that point all statistics go out he window. They decided ZERO is THE ONLY worthy goal.
Now, it's our duty to measure them:
- Diana Howard (D6): F - she has failed this city
- Jeff Gee (D1): F - he has failed this city
- Elmer Martinez Saballos (D4): F - he has failed this city
- Chris Sturken (D2): F - he has failed this city
- Kaia Eakin (D5): F - she has failed this city
- Isabella Chu (D3): F - she has failed this city
- Marcella Padilla (D7): F - she has failed this city
This is another Safe-Routes-To-School and Safe-Routes-To-Transit San Mateo Democrats are botching badly.
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Americans do love a good redemption story and Gee, Howard, Saballos, Sturken, Eakin, Chu, and especially Padilla can redeem themselves through the Jefferson Avenue project.
Currently a street that leads directly into the Sequoia Transit Station will not have bike lanes. That decision was made by three women: Melissa Stevenson-Diaz, Tanisha Werner, Malahat Owrang.
Staff needs to do better. City Council needs to bring back the best alternative adding bike lanes all the way to downtown. I mean who in their right mind stops bike lanes BEFORE they reach the main destination?
Let's see if the YIMBY's understand high-density this time around.
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