The City of Boise is deeply committed to enhancing the safety for all residents to move around our city, whether they choose to bus, bike, walk or drive. The city believes in taking a multi-faceted approach aimed at eliminating traffic-related fatalities and severe injuries. With a focus on advocacy, planning, education and infrastructure improvements, Boise is dedicated to fostering a city where everyone can move around safely and freely.
Vision Zero is a growing movement across the country to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries. The concept is deeply rooted in spatial and social equity, ensuring that all users on a street feel safe and like they belong. Implementation of Vision Zero utilizes a multidisciplinary lens to shift the way communities approach traffic safety. Principles include improved traffic and engineering design, data analysis and community engagement to create safer streets. The city has adopted a Vision Zero framework to guide our safety efforts and be more intentional in integrating these elements in our planning processes.
A core tenet of the City of Boise’s Transportation Action Plan (TAP) is expanding mobility choice. Transportation options must be available, convenient, safe, and affordable, in order for there to be a choice as outlined in the TAP. The City of Boise created a Vision Zero Task Force that brought together extensive knowledge and principles in engineering, education, evaluation and planning. The Vision Zero Task Force recommended key actions the city should take to reduce bicycle and pedestrian deaths and serious injuries on our streets.
In 2023, Boise experienced more traffic fatalities than it has in more than a decade. We also experienced a significant spike in serious injury crashes. After a serious or fatal traffic crash, an investigation occurs to determine what, if any, criminal charges might be pursued. Through the course of the investigation, if a clear hazard can be identified by law enforcement officers, our partners at Ada County Highway District work as quickly as possible to address it. Crash investigations done by our dedicated BPD officers are a crucial part of traffic enforcement. The goal of the Traffic Fatality Review Task Force is to review fatal and serious crashes to identify trends at the system-level and to collaborate on solutions that unite enforcement, education and engineering.
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When is a crash categorized as a "serious injury" crash?
If a crash results in a life-altering injury, this is considered a serious injury crash.
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If your plans involve alcohol, make sure they include a plan for a sober ride home.
Anytime you drive up to an intersection, take an extra moment to look for people in or near the crosswalks.
Slowing down just a little bit improves your stopping distance and increases the survivability of a crash to people inside and outside your vehicle.
If you see hazards such as overgrown shrubs and streetlight outages, contact ACHD.
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