As San Francisco marks a decade since the inception of its Vision Zero policy, the community gathered to remember the 317 people who died in traffic crashes since the city’s commitment to eliminating such fatalities. On World Day of Remembrance for Traffic Victims, advocates and family members of victims convened for a vigil outside City Hall, where 317 pairs of white “ghost shoes” stood in solemn testament to the lives lost on the treacherous roads of the city.
These poignant symbols serve as a memorial and a stark reminder of the work that remains undone. Walk SF held the vigil in reverence for the victims and pursuit of stauncher measures for road safety. “Every year it’s hard for me to see, not just the lives that were taken away but the family members and what pain they’re going through,” Jenny Yu, whose mother was seriously injured in a traffic accident, toldCBS San Francisco.
While the number of traffic-related deaths has reportedly decreased this year, the frequency of pedestrian fatalities remains unchanged since the implementation of Vision Zero, as noted by Jodie Medeiros, Executive Director of Walk SF, in an interview withABC7 News. This persistence in pedestrian deaths underscores the critical need for continuous action and policy refinement.
Accelerating the fight for safer streets, advocates have pushed for introducing speed cameras. “A speeding driver turning left struck her with an SUV and threw her body to the other side of the road, where she needed to have surgery to remove her brain cap, because it was too much pressure, but they saved her,” Yu described, as perABC7 News. The organization behind the vigil,Walk San Francisco, also took to social media to express the weight of this decade-long struggle, stating, “In the past decade, 317 people have been killed in traffic crashes in San Francisco. Too many lives cut short. Too many loved ones left behind suffering. #WDoR2024”
Among the 317 names are the names of the 32 people (including 21 pedestrians) who have died in traffic crashes on San Francisco streets so far this year.#WDoR#VisionZeroSFhttps://t.co/fjMf2N0GXP
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