Estimates indicate the rates of traffic-related deaths are the highest they’ve been in 20 years. An analysis by the American Journal of Preventative Medicine suggests Latino and Black Americans are disproportionately affected by vehicular fatalities.
, says while injuries and deaths resulting from car traffic might not always be considered a public health concern, ultimately, nearly everyone has an interest in making streets safer.
“As soon as you walk out of your door, you become a pedestrian or a road user,” Rosas said. “We know there’s more fatalities, but it has always been an issue. And when you talk to people especially that live in communities … on the South and West sides that have been disinvested, they’ve seen this for a long time and now we’re seeing it escalate and we’re seeing it in other parts of the city. …Now we’re getting the unintended consequences of the issues that we had neglected before growing.
“I believe it’s because when police are actually writing the reports of when people are killed on our streets, if the police don’t file something or don’t put in certain information, it does not get put into the data tracker from the city in a correct way,” Rosas said. “We actually do a much more thorough investigation and our numbers tend to be different because we’re actually taking into account a lot of other things that maybe police didn’t get in to the report right away.
“We know when this city was planned and how segregated it is, that Black and Brown communities weren’t given the infrastructure and were under resourced purposefully. And what that creates is the legacy of continued under-resourced communities, infrastructure that’s not maintained, streets and sidewalks that aren’t walkable,” said Honoré.
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