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Council adopts Transportation Safety Action Plan aiming to eliminate traffic fatalities by 2040
Summary
Broomfield adopted a USDOT-informed Transportation Safety Action Plan that maps a high‑injury network, recommends engineering, policy and enforcement changes, and sets targets to eliminate traffic fatalities and reduce serious injuries over coming decades.
Broomfield City and County Council unanimously adopted a Transportation Safety Action Plan on Tuesday that sets a vision of zero fatalities and an interim target to eliminate traffic‑related fatalities by 2040 and serious injuries by 2045 on Broomfield‑owned roadways.
Staff and consultants presented a data‑driven analysis of crashes and a recommended program of engineering, policy and non‑infrastructure countermeasures. The study identified a “high‑injury network,” conducted road safety audits at both Broomfield and Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) intersections, and mapped priorities using an “excess crash cost” metric that weights crashes by severity and exposure.
Key findings presented to council included that staff and consultants attribute roughly 87 percent of crashes to careless or distracted driving…
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