Bike crashes hit record highs in Shoreline
Sunday, December 14, 2025
Bike crashes hit an all-time high in Shoreline last year. Total car crashes increased too, but the number of Fatal and Serious Injury declined.
The city of Shoreline released its Annual Traffic Report covering data for 2024 and the city council will talk about it on Monday, December 15, 2025.
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| Fatal and Serious Injury (FSI) collisions 2024 |
Drivers hit three fewer pedestrians last year, down slightly from a record-high of 23 pedestrian collisions to 20 in 2024.
Drivers hitting bicyclists reached an all time record in 2024. There were 15 car crashes involving a bike rider in 2024. In comparison, there were 4 bike riders hit by drivers in 2008.
For obvious reasons, when a driver hits a pedestrian or bicyclist, the non-drivers is more likely to be killed or seriously injured.
Although pedestrians and bicyclists were involved in only 5% of total crashes, they accounted for 40% of all fatal and serious injury crashes over the past ten years, according to the traffic report.
The Traffic Report also includes data on which roads have the worst speeding and which intersections had the worst crashes. Speeding is a particular problem on 175th street.
The Traffic Report also includes data on which roads have the worst speeding and which intersections had the worst crashes. Speeding is a particular problem on 175th street.
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| Streets with persistent speeding violations |
Earlier this year, the city said over 1,000 drivers per day violate the speed limit in front of Meridian Park Elementary while children are present and the 20 mph school zone lights are flashing.
Twenty five years ago, the state adopted a “Target Zero” goal to achieve zero fatal and serious injury crashes by the year 2030. Shoreline has yet to adopt a Target Zero goal.
The city council approved $395,000 in the current budget for the city’s Traffic Safety Improvement Program. In comparison, the city council recently spent $234,048 for the ShoreLights winter light display along Aurora Ave near city hall.
You can read the Shoreline 2024 Annual Traffic Report and provide public comment to the city council on the city’s website.
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3 comments:
If 1000 motorists per day violate the speed limit in front of Meridian Park school, how many accidents have been reported there, and how many were directly attributable to excessive speed?
Wait… $234,000!!!! On Xmas lights… yet this city is “broke” and wants more $$ for schools, EMS, parks. Come on… someone should look into the spending by this city. Taxpayers should get a detailed spreadsheet with every item the city purchased at the end of the year.
EMS and Schools are not funded by the City.
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