Pedestrian Safety

Sites chosen for 2025 Complete Streets Safety Assessments program

April 21, 2025
Submitted by Karen Nguyen Vo

UC Berkeley SafeTREC and California Walks are excited to share news about the communities throughout California that we will be partnering with this year as part of our 2025 Complete Streets Safety Assessment (CSSA) program!

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Watch as traffic safety research is explained in 101 seconds

May 6, 2025
By Sean Patrick Farrell

There’s a statistic that sticks in the minds of many who work on traffic safety issues: The U.S., among wealthy nations, has the highest rate of road traffic fatalities. People in the U.S. are nearly three times more likely to die in a car crash than people in Australia, and six times more likely than in Sweden.

For Julia Griswold, this troubling fact should be front of mind for everyone, whether they are drivers, cyclists, pedestrians or transportation planners. Griswold runs UC Berkeley’s...

4/29 Peer Exchange - Leveraging the CSSA for funding opportunities: A case study from the City of Calabasas

April 10, 2025
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

UC Berkeley SafeTREC is excited to announce our 2025 online peer exchange series as part of the Complete Streets Safety Assessment (CSSA) program. This two part webinar series aims to support agencies and communities working to advance safer walking and biking throughout California. Registration is now open for the first session on April 29th, which will provide the opportunity to gain a greater...

The 2025 CPBSP: Partnering with 13 communities throughout California for safer walking, biking and rolling

March 24, 2025
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

UC Berkeley SafeTREC and California Walks are excited to share news about the communities throughout California that we will be partnering with this year as part of our 2025 Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Program (CPBSP)!

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Reflections on the 2019 Safe Systems Summit: Redefining Transportation Safety

June 7, 2019
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON

According to the latest data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), there were 37,133 traffic fatalities on U.S. roadways in 2017, a 1.8-percent decrease from the 37,806 people killed in 2016. While there has been a general downward trend downward in traffic fatalities overall, this is still an alarmingly high number of deaths – and there have been troubling increases for vulnerable road users like pedestrians. A new report from the Governors Highway Safety...

Register now for Street Story Webinar on August 7th

July 19, 2019
SUBMITTED BY LISA PETERSON

Registration Now Open for a Free Webinar with UC Berkeley SafeTREC and California Walks:

Participants at CPBST Workshop using Street Story

Street Story at Work: How Communities are Using the Tool
Wednesday, August 7, 2019, 3pm - 4pm PT...

California Pedestrian Safety Month is here!

September 10, 2021
Submitted by Kris Leckie

Today we're excited to share a guest news story from SafeTREC's Kris Leckie, Program & Policy Analyst. This post was originally published on September 8, 2021.

As we near two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, agencies are now releasing data on its impact for people walking. According to a report from the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), 2020 had the “largest ever annual increase, 21 percent, in the rate at which drivers struck and killed pedestrians.” In...

New Resource: Strengthening Partnerships Peer Exchange Series Summaries Now Available

July 12, 2022
Submitted by Katherine Chen

This spring, UC Berkeley SafeTREC, in collaboration with California Walks, rolled out a new resource for former Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Training program participants. Funded by the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS), we convened residents, agency staff, and other transportation safety advocates for a three-part virtual peer exchange, Strengthening Partnerships:...

Community Outreach & Walk/Bike Workshop in San Jose: Thursday, Aug. 31

August 29, 2017
Lisa Peterson

Please join us on Thursday, August 31 for the Vision Zero San Jose Community Outreach and Walk + Bike Workshop at the Cambrian Branch Library in San Jose!

TRAINING INFORMATION

DATE/TIME: Thursday, August 31; 6:00PM - 8:30PM
LOCATION: Cambrian Branch Library, Community Room - 1780 Hillsdale Avenue, San Jose, CA

Vision Zero San Jose Community Outreach Workshop Flyer

Course Announcement: Spring 2023 Traffic Safety and Injury Control

November 14, 2022
Submitted by Lisa Peterson

People walking in crosswalk with traffic passing with course title, time and date overlaid

Course Description:

Injuries from traffic crashes are a major cause of death and disability in the United States and around the world. In the United States injury from traffic crashes is the leading cause of death and disability for people ages 1 to 34, and a major cause for all...