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Cape Cod committee reviews six years of crash data, sets public meetings and draft plan timeline
Summary
The Cape Cod Commission’s Vision 0 committee reviewed six years of MassDOT crash data, identified high-injury and high-risk networks for prioritization, and announced November public meetings, a mid-December update and a draft action plan targeted for February plus an April implementation-grant cycle.
Colleen Medeiros, transportation program manager at the Cape Cod Commission, convened the Vision 0 Action Committee on Oct. 2 to review six years of crash data and outline public engagement and next steps. Consultants presented maps and analyses intended to identify a draft high-injury network and complementary high-risk network for the Cape.
Consultants from Kimley Horn and partners said the MassDOT crash-data portal shows about 5,000 crashes per year — roughly 29,587 crashes across the six-year window presented — with geographic hot spots including Barnstable, Falmouth and the Bourne Rotary. "Deaths and serious injuries are unacceptable," a consultant said while explaining the Safe Streets for All framework for focusing on fatal and serious injury locations. The presentation broke crashes down by contributing factor and mode: distracted driving was cited as the largest contributing factor (about 38% of the flagged primary causes), followed…
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