This indicator represents data on collisions resulting in pedestrian injuries and fatalities provided by the California Highway Patrol, Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System (SWITRS). SWITRS data for San Francisco is analyzed and mapped by the San Francisco Department of Public Health, and reported on the Healthy Development Measurement Tool.

Approximately 800 people walking on San Francisco streets are injured or killed by cars annually. The population rate of injuries, approximately 100/100,000 resident population, is five times the national target. While 11% of traffic deaths nationally are to pedestrians, 50% of traffic deaths in San Francisco are people walking on the city's streets.

Based on data from the most recent years available, the average annual rate of pedestrian injuries and deaths is 98 injuries/100,000 population. Due to annual fluctuations in the injury rate, SFDPH estimates this rate based on the most recent five years of data to increase the stability of the estimate.

 

There are currently a number of coordinated efforts among City and County of San Francisco agencies and community partners to reduce the rate and the number of pedestrian injuries and deaths in San Francisco.

 

The Mayor's December 2010 Executive Directive "10-03: Pedestrian Safety In San Francisco" established targets, for the first time, for the reduction of serious and fatal pedestrian injuries in San Francisco of 25% by 2016 and 50% by 2021. Since January 2011, a Citywide Task Force led by the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) and the SF Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) has met monthly to coordinate to achieve those targets as well as execute a number of near-term actions in support of those targets detailed in the Executive Directive (http://sfmayor.org/ftp/archive/mayornewsom/press-release-mayor-newsom-signs-pedestriansafety-executive-directive/index.html). In addition to SFDPH and SFMTA representatives, the Task Force is comprised of key City and County agencies whose decisions impact on pedestrian safety, with representation from the SF Police Department (SFPD), SF County Transportation Authority (SFCTA), San Francisco General Hospital, SF Department of Public Works, SF Planning Department, SF Unified School District, the Mayor's Office of Disability, SF Fire Department, SF Recreation and Parks Department, SF Environment, SF Public Utilities Commission, as well as key community stakeholder participation from Walk SF, Senior Action Network, CALPED, the Chinatown Community Development Center, and representatives from the SF Board of Supervisors’ Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee. The Task Force also has three Subcommittees (Enforcement, Engineering, and Data), which meet monthly to support the achievement of near-term actions. Full Task Force meetings also address issues including current funding for pedestrian safety improvements, international best practices, and legislative and other barriers to pedestrian safety improvements.

 

The Task Force serves an important coordinating function for a number of on-going initiatives to improve pedestrian safety, many of which support the Task Force near-term actions, including:

• The Walk First project (http://www.sf-planning.org/index.aspx?page=2568) led by SFDPH in collaboration with the SFMTA, SFCTA, and SF Planning Department to identify where people walk in San Francisco and how to prioritize capital improvements to best serve pedestrians, including safety; 
• SFDPH pedestrian injury and environmental quality mapping and methods development to inform targeted pedestrian safety improvements (http://www.sfdph.org/dph/comupg/oprograms/CHPP/TrafficSafety/ppsp.asp) Less than seven percent of San Francisco’s street length contributes to 55% of severe and fatal pedestrian injuries;
• SFDPH research and modeling (http://www.sfphes.org/HIA_Tools_Ped_Injury_Model.htm, http://www.sfphes.org/HIA_Tools_PEQI.htm)] to identify the environmental factors contributing to pedestrian injuries; 
• Coordinated case studies of high injury corridors including collision analyses); 
• SFDPH-led Safe Routes to Schools program (http://sfsaferoutestoschool.org) to promote safe and active walking and bicycling to and from school. San Francisco’s SRTS program was initiated at 5 elementary schools in the 2009-2010 school year (SY) and expanded to 15 elementary schools in SY 2010-2011 and SY 2011-2012; 
• SFPD targeted enforcement efforts to improve pedestrian safety; 
• SFMTA-led engineering programs to address high-injury corridors, implement the first traffic calmed “home zone,” and implement 15mph speed signs around qualifying schools.

View the full 2011 Champion Report on this indicator.

This indicator represents data on collisions resulting in pedestrian injuries and fatalities provided by the California Highway Patrol, Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System (SWITRS). SWITRS data for San Francisco is analyzed and mapped by the San Francisco Department of Public Health, and reported on the Healthy Development Measurement Tool.

Approximately 800 people walking on San Francisco streets are injured or killed by cars annually. The population rate of injuries, approximately 100/100,000 resident population, is five times the national target. While 11% of traffic deaths nationally are to pedestrians, 50% of traffic deaths in San Francisco are people walking on the city's streets.

Based on data from the most recent years available, the average annual rate of pedestrian injuries and deaths is 98 injuries/100,000 population. Due to annual fluctuations in the injury rate, SFDPH estimates this rate based on the most recent five years of data to increase the stability of the estimate.

 

There are currently a number of coordinated efforts among City and County of San Francisco agencies and community partners to reduce the rate and the number of pedestrian injuries and deaths in San Francisco.

 

The Mayor's December 2010 Executive Directive "10-03: Pedestrian Safety In San Francisco" established targets, for the first time, for the reduction of serious and fatal pedestrian injuries in San Francisco of 25% by 2016 and 50% by 2021. Since January 2011, a Citywide Task Force led by the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) and the SF Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) has met monthly to coordinate to achieve those targets as well as execute a number of near-term actions in support of those targets detailed in the Executive Directive (http://sfmayor.org/ftp/archive/mayornewsom/press-release-mayor-newsom-signs-pedestriansafety-executive-directive/index.html). In addition to SFDPH and SFMTA representatives, the Task Force is comprised of key City and County agencies whose decisions impact on pedestrian safety, with representation from the SF Police Department (SFPD), SF County Transportation Authority (SFCTA), San Francisco General Hospital, SF Department of Public Works, SF Planning Department, SF Unified School District, the Mayor's Office of Disability, SF Fire Department, SF Recreation and Parks Department, SF Environment, SF Public Utilities Commission, as well as key community stakeholder participation from Walk SF, Senior Action Network, CALPED, the Chinatown Community Development Center, and representatives from the SF Board of Supervisors’ Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee. The Task Force also has three Subcommittees (Enforcement, Engineering, and Data), which meet monthly to support the achievement of near-term actions. Full Task Force meetings also address issues including current funding for pedestrian safety improvements, international best practices, and legislative and other barriers to pedestrian safety improvements.

 

The Task Force serves an important coordinating function for a number of on-going initiatives to improve pedestrian safety, many of which support the Task Force near-term actions, including:

• The Walk First project (http://www.sf-planning.org/index.aspx?page=2568) led by SFDPH in collaboration with the SFMTA, SFCTA, and SF Planning Department to identify where people walk in San Francisco and how to prioritize capital improvements to best serve pedestrians, including safety; 
• SFDPH pedestrian injury and environmental quality mapping and methods development to inform targeted pedestrian safety improvements (http://www.sfdph.org/dph/comupg/oprograms/CHPP/TrafficSafety/ppsp.asp) Less than seven percent of San Francisco’s street length contributes to 55% of severe and fatal pedestrian injuries;
• SFDPH research and modeling (http://www.sfphes.org/HIA_Tools_Ped_Injury_Model.htm, http://www.sfphes.org/HIA_Tools_PEQI.htm)] to identify the environmental factors contributing to pedestrian injuries; 
• Coordinated case studies of high injury corridors including collision analyses); 
• SFDPH-led Safe Routes to Schools program (http://sfsaferoutestoschool.org) to promote safe and active walking and bicycling to and from school. San Francisco’s SRTS program was initiated at 5 elementary schools in the 2009-2010 school year (SY) and expanded to 15 elementary schools in SY 2010-2011 and SY 2011-2012; 
• SFPD targeted enforcement efforts to improve pedestrian safety; 
• SFMTA-led engineering programs to address high-injury corridors, implement the first traffic calmed “home zone,” and implement 15mph speed signs around qualifying schools.

View the full 2011 Champion Report on this indicator.