Cape Cod Commission presents Vision 0 Action Plan draft, highlights high-injury corridors and calls for regional action

The Cape Cod Commission on Wednesday presented a draft Cape Cod Vision 0 Action Plan aimed at eliminating fatal and serious-injury crashes across the region by setting a long-term Vision 0 goal and recommending engineering and non‑engineering countermeasures tailored to high-injury corridors.

Colleen Medeiros, Transportation Program Manager at the Cape Cod Commission, opened the presentation and said the plan — funded by a Federal Highway Administration grant under the Safe Streets and Roads for All program — covers all 15 towns in Barnstable County and is intended to help communities prepare projects and apply for implementation funds. “We are presenting on the Cape Cod Vision 0 Action Plan,” Medeiros said. “We are really looking for feedback tonight.”

The consultants presented a data-driven diagnosis of the problem and a menu of responses. Bill Scully, a member of the consultant team, said the study analyzed crash records from 2018 through 2023 and identified a regional “high injury network” of intersections, corridors and locations most associated with fatal and serious crashes. Scully summarized the dataset and said the team identified more than 27,600 reported crashes across the Cape in that six-year period, and roughly 660–670 crashes classified as fatal or serious injury; of those, presenters reported 75 fatal crashes and about 592 serious-injury crashes in the six-year window.

The analysis showed seasonal and time‑of‑day patterns: a…