five-year-old daughter Aileen was killed<\/a> after being struck by a car while walking in a crosswalk with her aunt and younger sister in 2013, expressed gratitude and relief at the city\u2019s program \u2013 and the hope that it would help prevent other families from experiencing the same loss as his.<\/p>\n\u201cWe are a community no one ever imagines being part of,\u201d Quiroz said. \u201cOur lives were torn apart by something that was completely preventable, something that should never happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Quiroz is a founding member of San Francisco Bay Area Families for Safe Streets, which advocates for stronger traffic safety protections to help prevent other families from sharing in their pain. Aileen loved playing soccer and watching her father at his soccer training, had a \u201cbeautiful\u201d smile and wore ties as part of her outfits for school, her father said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSeeing her smile while I coached, those were some of the best moments of my life. Moments I replay in my mind because I can\u2019t have them back,\u201d Quiroz said. \u201cAll of that was taken from her and from us because someone was driving too fast. I don\u2019t want what happened to Aileen to ever happen to another child, another parent, another family.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speeding is the top contributor to fatal traffic collisions in San Jose, said Vice Mayor Pam Foley.<\/p>\n
\u201cBehind each of these numbers is a parent, a child, a sibling, a neighbor, a friend who needlessly lost their lives on our streets due to preventable traffic collisions \u2013 preventable because people were speeding, not paying attention, driving recklessly,\u201d Foley said. \u201cThese tragedies have lasting impacts on families and our entire community, and we have a responsibility to do everything we can do to prevent them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Between 2021 and 2025, collisions involving excessive speed have caused the deaths of 41 people and severe injuries to 265 in San Jose, Mahan said. In San Francisco, areas with speed cameras saw an 84% drop in speeding over an 18-month period. Statistics from the Federal Highway Administration have found that speed cameras reduce collisions on urban streets by 54%, Foley added.<\/p>\n
\u201cSlower speed means more reaction time for drivers, better protection for vulnerable roadway users and safer streets for children, older adults and all community members,\u201d Foley said. \u201cWith the installation of these speed safety cameras, we\u2019re taking an important step toward our Vision Zero goal of eliminating traffic fatalities and severe injuries on our streets entirely.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clarrissa Cabansagan, executive director of the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition, added that speed is the primary factor \u201cthat determines if someone can survive a crash.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is about human life and the fragility of human life, and that we desperately need our community to understand that speed is what kills,\u201d she said. \u201cThese are preventable deaths, and the city of San Jose today is taking one of the biggest steps they can to slow down our cars.\u201d<\/p>\n
The cameras are provided by vendor Verra Mobility Solutions, Inc., the city added in a press release.<\/p>\n
\u201cSpeeding may save a minute,\u201d Mahan said, \u201cbut slowing down can save a life.\u201d<\/p>\n
For more information about the program and where the cameras are being installed, visit the city\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose is installing 33 speed cameras across the city, aiming to reduce traffic deaths with a five-year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89,83095,16217,1967],"class_list":["post-506021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-speed-camera","tag-traffic-fatalities","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}