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SFPD traffic captain says injury collisions down but fatalities have risen this year
Summary
Captain Corrales told the Police Commission that injury collisions are down in many districts but pedestrian and overall fatalities have increased; the Traffic Company is using grant-funded motorcycles and community sting operations while balancing deployments to neighborhoods under siege.
Captain Corrales, commanding officer of the San Francisco Police Department Traffic Company, briefed the commission on traffic-enforcement work, data trends and grant-supported tactics.
"Injury accidents are down this year. Unfortunately, fatalities are up," Corrales said, noting that through July there had been 18 fatal accidents producing 19 fatalities and that August included three additional fatal accidents that produced six more fatalities. He said pedestrian…
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