Don’t feel bad if you didn’t buy a gift or bake a cake. Just slow down and don’t hit anybody. The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department advises, In 2024, an estimated 7,080 people walking were struck and killed by vehicles. Of those people, 1,090 were killed in California alone.
Serious business, even with the backdrop of the road diets and increase in fatalities under the city’s failed Vision Zero (zero pedestrian deaths) program. KTLA reported on this $350 million boondoggle.
Keep your hands at 10 and 2 and drive the speed limit. And drive defensively, even conservatively.
Here are some of the details from the LASD:
October is National Pedestrian Safety Month
Drivers are urged to slow down and be alert for people walking
Los Angeles County, Calif. – October is National Pedestrian Safety Month and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department would like to remind drivers to take extra precautions to help protect people walking.
“In Los Angeles County, we’re committed to reinforcing everyday safety actions like slowing down, following the posted speed limit, staying alert and yielding to people in crosswalks,” Sergeant Michael Lennig said. “Drivers have an outsized role to keep all people walking safe. Remember that pedestrians do not have the same protections as drivers and passengers traveling inside vehicles.”
On average, 19 pedestrians are killed in traffic crashes every day in the United States, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. In 2024, an estimated 7,080 people walking were struck and killed by vehicles. Of those people, 1,090 were killed in California alone.
To promote the safety of people walking, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will be conducting traffic safety operations throughout the month focused on the most dangerous driver behaviors that put the safety of pedestrians at risk. These violations include speeding, making illegal turns, failing to yield and running stop signs or signals.
Funding for this program is provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Drivers are urged to slow down and be alert for people walking
Los Angeles County, Calif. – October is National Pedestrian Safety Month and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department would like to remind drivers to take extra precautions to help protect people walking.
“In Los Angeles County, we’re committed to reinforcing everyday safety actions like slowing down, following the posted speed limit, staying alert and yielding to people in crosswalks,” Sergeant Michael Lennig said. “Drivers have an outsized role to keep all people walking safe. Remember that pedestrians do not have the same protections as drivers and passengers traveling inside vehicles.”
On average, 19 pedestrians are killed in traffic crashes every day in the United States, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. In 2024, an estimated 7,080 people walking were struck and killed by vehicles. Of those people, 1,090 were killed in California alone.
To promote the safety of people walking, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will be conducting traffic safety operations throughout the month focused on the most dangerous driver behaviors that put the safety of pedestrians at risk. These violations include speeding, making illegal turns, failing to yield and running stop signs or signals.
Funding for this program is provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Your tax dollars at work.
