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Draft safety action plan highlights low fatality record but recommends sidewalks, speed management and targeted fixes
Summary
JUB Engineers presented a draft Comprehensive Safety Action Plan funded by a U.S. DOT grant that summarizes five years of crash data (2019–2023), recommends multimodal projects and prioritization, and will return to the council for a final recommendation after UTEC review.
Spencer Montgomery of JUB Engineers presented the City of College Place’s draft Comprehensive Safety Action Plan at the Aug. 5 workshop, saying the study — funded largely by a U.S. Department of Transportation grant — combines technical crash analysis with public input and prioritizes projects aimed at preventing fatalities and serious injuries. Montgomery summarized five years of data from 2019–2023 showing 440 crashes in the study period, including one fatality and four serious injuries. He said the most common crash types included angle crashes (116), rear-end collisions (94), collisions with parked cars (63) and fixed-object crashes (62), and that distracted driving showed up as the highest contributing circumstance in the crash reports. Montgomery emphasized the plan’s…
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