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San Francisco updates Vision Zero strategy, highlights hospital data link and equity focus
Summary
San Francisco Department of Public Health staff told the Health Commission the Vision Zero program has cut traffic deaths to a record low and is now using hospital trauma data to target a 13% "high injury network" that accounts for most severe injuries; officials flagged AB342 (automated speed enforcement) as stalled by union opposition.
Megan Weir, director of the Program on Health Equity and Sustainability in the Department of Public Health, told the San Francisco Health Commission that Vision Zero has shifted the city from a behavior-focused approach to system design that treats traffic deaths as preventable. She said the city recorded its fewest traffic fatalities in 2017 since records began in 1915.
Weir said the department has linked hospital trauma data from Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital with police collision reports to produce a more complete picture of severe injuries and to improve injury severity assessment. That work helped identify a…
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