It’s been more than four decades yet Rhonda Campbell’s voice still quavered as she stood before a row of television…

2-year-old girl was walking in the crosswalk at Fourth and Channel streets in Mission Bay – one of San Francisco’s…

It’s been a grim start to the new year, with four more people dying over the weekend in car crashes…

‘There is either moral culpability or legal liability on them,’ the Placer County DA said, ‘and they are actively seeking…

California lawmakers grilled the head of the Department of Motor Vehicles about why dangerous drivers are able to keep their…

‘If these people’s children had been killed by a drunk driver, there is no way they would be objecting to…

Steve Gordon, director of the California Department of Motor Vehicles, testifies at a joint informational hearing on California’s DUI and…

Hit-and-run crashes are happening more often across the United States, reaching their highest recorded percentage in recent years, according to…

New research finds that 15% of all vehicle crashes reported to law enforcement in 2023 involved a driver who fled…

CalMatters wanted to understand how California handles dangerous drivers. When we began looking into it, we found that while there…

The California DMV routinely allows dangerous drivers with horrifying histories to continue to operate on our roadways. Too often they…

A CalMatters investigation found that courts didn’t report hundreds of vehicular manslaughter convictions to the state, prompting officials to belatedly…

As alcohol-related roadway deaths spike across the state, a CalMatters investigation finds California has some of the weakest DUI laws…

A diversion program created by the Legislature in 2020 has allowed some people charged with vehicular manslaughter to keep the…

Vision Zero is the idea that no one should be die or be seriously injured in a traffic crash.

California Car Accidents: The state’s sprawling highways, congested urban streets, and diverse driving conditions contribute to thousands of crashes each year,…

This publication is distributed by the U.S. Department of Transportation, NationalHighway Traffic Safety Administration, in the interest of information exchange.The…

The city faces high and rising injury rates on its roads. The proposal to declare an emergency is appropriate, say…

It’s a bit of a disaster here. It seems we do not learn and the decision-makers keep making dog shit…

Sacramento announced a “Vision Zero Transportation Safety Initiative” Wednesday and said the city would shift more focus to rapid street…

Anatoly Varfolomeev addresses the media at the Capitol Annex Swing Space in Sacramento during a press conference where lawmakers announced…

The San Francisco Civil Grand Jury (“the Jury”) is a government oversight panel of volunteerswho serve for one year. Each…

Traffic fatality rates in the city remained basically unchanged despite a decade of work to end deaths altogether.

A vigil for the family struck by a driver in West Portal in March 2024. Photo by Eleni Balakrishnan.

The Vision Zero Action Strategy outlines the commitments and actions the City will take to eliminate traffic deaths. We will…

by Will Jarrett After months of political wrangling and intense number-crunching, the final budget for San Francisco’s coming two years was…

Safety is our top priority Vision Zero SF adopts a data-driven approach to safety, following the models of the San Francisco…

A recent report revealed that in the last five years, traffic collisions have cost San Francisco residents a total of…

Your office requested that the Budget and Legislative Analyst conduct an analysis of the economic costs and fiscal impact of…

Budget analyst urges better reporting to inform public and reduce costs

Produced by the San Francisco Department of Public Health, in collaboration with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency,the San Francisco…

California is closing its fifth state prison. Officials point to lower inmate numbers, but the reasons behind the decline are…