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Palm Springs police present traffic data, press for engineering, education and enforcement push
Summary
Police Chief Mills told the City Council that 1,497 collisions were recorded from 2023–2025, including 27 fatalities, and urged a three-part strategy—engineering, education and enforcement—to reduce serious crashes and pedestrian deaths.
Chief Mills, head of the Palm Springs Police Department, told the City Council on Jan. 28 that traffic collisions remain a leading local safety problem and outlined a three-part approach to reducing crashes.
"The bottom line is anybody dying in our city is one too many," Mills said, after presenting data showing 1,497 recorded collisions between 2023 and 2025, of which 549 had visible injuries, 110 were severe and 27 were fatal. He noted that DUI,…
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