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Consultant outlines Safe Streets Pasco crash analysis; board asks for corridor-level detail
Summary
Consultant Catherine Tellez presented the Safe Streets Pasco safety action plan, highlighting a high-injury network based on 2020'1024 crash data, major corridors (including US 19), and a mix of engineering and nonengineering countermeasures. Board members asked for more corridor- and before/after analysis and for near-miss assessments.
A consultant presented an update on Safe Streets Pasco, a countywide safety action plan designed to identify the locations and causes of fatal and severe injury crashes and recommend prioritized countermeasures.
Catherine Tellez of Farron Pierce summarized the crash analysis underpinning the plan, saying the team identified a high-injury network and a separate high-risk network (locations with characteristics likely to produce serious crashes). The analysis used 2020'2024 crash records to produce a top-10 corridors and top-10 intersections list; Tellez said some corridors — notably segments of US 19 — have already received improvements and are showing positive effects in the data.
"So this is sort of part of the proactive portion of safety where it allows us to think a little bit more holistically," Tellez said, describing a mix of engineering (signals, medians, overcrossings) and nonengineering countermeasures (education, enforcement, policy changes) that could be prioritized for near-term and longer-term implementation.
Board members requested finer-grained analysis. "With a five-year rolling average it's almost useless data to me," Commissioner Mariano said, pressing for year-to-year and intersection-level metrics and for before/after studies tied to specific improvements. Staff and the consultant acknowledged limitations in available crash narratives for some fields (for example, micro-mobility involvement and some elements of crash narratives) and agreed to provide corridor-level fact sheets and readable PDFs for board review.
Tellez also described outreach activities — pop-up events, an online survey (which triggered a spike of more than 700 visits the day a utility-bill insert was mailed) and an elected-officials guide — and recommended near-miss assessments at recently improved locations to evaluate immediate effects of countermeasures without waiting multiple years for statistically robust crash changes.
The presentation was informational only; no board vote was required. Staff said they will continue refining the plan, produce executive summaries and fact sheets, and incorporate additional data analyses in future updates.
