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Traffic safety plan: Santa Barbara shows spike in 2024 severe-injury collisions; high-injury network targets small portion of streets
Summary
City Public Works staff reported a five-year collision analysis and draft Safe Streets for All plan chapters, saying 2024 showed a sharp rise in severe and fatal collisions concentrated on a small portion of city streets.
Public Works staff presented a five-year traffic safety analysis and draft "past and present" chapters of a Safe Streets for All action plan to the Fire and Police Commission on May 22, saying collision severity rose in 2024 and that most severe and fatal crashes are concentrated on a small portion of city streets.
Jessica Grant, supervising transportation planner, and Derek Bailey, the city traffic engineer, described the federal Safe Streets for All planning grant the city received and the work the city is doing to identify countermeasures. Grant said the city received $799,000 under the federal program with a 20% city match to produce an action plan that identifies infrastructure and policy steps to prevent traffic fatalities and severe injuries.
Staff analyzed collisions from 2020 through 2024 to support grant applications and countermeasure selection. Grant said severe and fatal injuries are overrepresented among cyclists, pedestrians and motorcyclists…
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