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Belmont police outline traffic-safety data, enforcement and grant-funded programs
Summary
At a June 16 Belmont City Public Safety Committee meeting, police staff reviewed 2022 statewide traffic data, described local rankings for pedestrian and bicycle injuries, and said the department is continuing grant-funded enforcement and education including distracted-driving patrols and community outreach.
Belmont City police presented a traffic-safety update to the Public Safety Committee on Monday, June 16, citing 2022 statewide data from the Office of Traffic Safety and describing local enforcement and education funded by grants.
The presentation, given by a departmental traffic staff member, said Belmont ranks 47 out of 90 comparable California cities on an index of traffic injuries and fatalities and 12 out of 90 on a bicycle-fatality metric. The staff member said statewide bicycle fatalities rose 61 percent from 2020 to 2022 and that “77 percent of pedestrian serious injuries occur when it was dark, and it's usually between 9 and 3 when this is occurring.” The presenter said the 2022 numbers are a baseline for Belmont before the city began…
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