Why Do We Need Safe Streets?
The reality is that we need safe streets because deaths and serious (a-level) injuries are entirely preventable here.
The City of Detroit experiences more than 100 auto related fatalities and several hundred incapacitating injuries each year.
Fatal Injury:
Fatal Injury:
Crash data supplied by the South East Michigan Council of Governments
A-Level - Incapacitating Injury:
A-Level - Incapacitating Injury:
Is any injury, other than fatal, that prevents the injured person from walking, driving, or normally continuing the activities which he or she was capable of performing prior to the motor vehicle traffic crash.
Source:https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/hsip/spm/conversion_tbl/pdfs/kabco_ctable_by_state.pdf