Driven to Death<\/a>. That’s where the city reports a 52% drop in fatal crashes over the last year, down from 25 in 2024.<\/p>\nThis year, so far, only three fatalities on Loop 12. But none of those happened on southern loop 12.<\/p>\n
Remember that’s where the city installed new crosswalks and traffic signals at 16 locations, and DART moved bus stops closer to signals to help people cross the busy road safely.<\/p>\n
Dallas Police also dramatically increased speed patrols, writing thousands of tickets on Loop 12 after our series of reports.<\/p>\n
On Monday, one Dallas City Council Member said the recent successes showed that the city staff should focus on the data and address the deadliest locations first.<\/p>\n
“I hope you ignore us. I hope you say I don’t care what you say, we have the data and I hope you fix the most dangerous places,” said Dallas City Councilmember Cara Mendelsohn. “And I don’t care what district they are in. If they are all in one district and it’s not mine, I don’t care.”<\/p>\n
But while some council members celebrated successes on Monday, others noted there is still a ton of room for improvement.<\/p>\n
Dallas still has a long way to go to if it is ever going to reach the lofty Vision Zero Traffic safety program goal it set for zero deaths by 2030.<\/p>\n
Council Member Chad West questioned Dr. Ghassan “Gus” Khankarli, the city’s transportation director, on Monday about whether he’s allocating enough resources to implement Vision Zero plans on more deadly roads.<\/p>\n
“A $12 million budget in your department and only one person assigned to Vision Zero, to me, there’s a disconnect,” said West.<\/p>\n
“I will again answer the question by saying I have other programs and other items that feed into Vision Zero, and it is not a one-person, one-off program,” said Khankarli.<\/p>\n
The transportation department already has plans for improvements to other roads, such as Skillman, Abrams and Ferguson, with projects aimed at reducing high speeds and deaths.<\/p>\n
The data shows speeding is still the number one cause of deadly crashes in Dallas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas is seeing a dramatic decline in traffic deaths on the street that used to be the city’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,30005],"class_list":["post-258660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-driven-to-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}