Street Story(link is external) is a community engagement platform provided by UC Berkeley SafeTREC in English(link is external) and Spanish(link is external) that allows residents, community groups, and agencies to collect information about transportation crashes, near misses, general hazards, and safe locations to travel. The tool is free to use, anonymous, and publicly accessible. Street Story is not a...
In partnership with UC Berkeley SafeTREC, the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS)(link is external) has launched a campaign to promote Street Story at a total of eighty-four transit stops in the cities of Berkeley, Sacramento, Chico, and Redding. The tool is also being promoted via social media for the duration of the campaign. The campaign will be running from January 23rd through February 19th, 2023.
Recorded Webinar available: "Engaging Decision-Makers using Street Story"
Do you shy away from speaking with decision-makers regarding traffic safety concerns in your community? Tune in to our webinar! This 2024 webinar has been recorded and is available at the UC Berkeley SafeTREC YouTube channel(link is external).
Join UC Berkeley SafeTREC to learn about how Spanish-speaking communities can use Street Story(link is external), a community engagement tool that allows communities to collect information about near misses, crashes, hazardous locations, and safe locations to travel within the state of...
Motor vehicle traffic fatalities are a public health problem in the United States. In 2022, there were 42,514 people killed and another 2.38 million people injured on U.S. roadways (National Center for Statistics and Analysis [NCSA], 2024). These fatalities are a leading cause of death and kill over 116 people each day. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS), in 2022, for people ages 15-24, motor vehicle crashes were the leading cause of death in the United States (CDC, 2022). Across all age...
During the California-wide PedsCount! Summit 2018(link is external), we launched Street Story(link is external), SafeTREC’s new community engagement platform that allows residents, community groups and agencies to collect information about transportation collisions, near-misses, general hazards and safe locations to travel. In essence, the platform invites users to enter ...
