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.
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?
ReplyDeleteWait… $234,000!!!! On Xmas lights… yet this city is “broke” and wants more $$ for schools, EMS, parks. Come on… someone should look into the spending by this city. Taxpayers should get a detailed spreadsheet with every item the city purchased at the end of the year.
ReplyDeleteEMS and Schools are not funded by the City.
ReplyDeleteRegardless, $234k for holiday lights is obnoxious.
DeleteRead your local was my friend. Yes, cities and counties in Washington State pay for EMS, primarily through voter-approved property tax levies (like King County's Medic One) or ambulance utility fees, with funds covering personnel, training, equipment, and operations. In addition, the city was just begging to approve a levy to raise taxes to fund public schools. So yes, our $$$ is going to schools because people believe the city, which they shouldn’t. Furthermore, the city should stop paying for social services for illegals and poor people. That $200,000 could have been used to clean up Aurora!
DeleteWhat's the rate of ebike vs regular bike collusions?
ReplyDeleteThe city has hired parking enforcement officers - I guess to keep apartment dwellers from parking in front of single family homes. If they are in fact doing anything productive, it's not visible. There are often cars parking in front of hydrants on NE 175th, and whatever the road is west of Aurora at 155th. .Any chance of hiring some motorcycle police to actually ticket speeders? I will say it as I have many times and will again - you could pay for your new swimming pool/fitness center with traffic fines if the laws were enforced and violators fined!
ReplyDeleteThanks for this reporting. I didn't realize how low the funding for the Traffic Safety Improvement Program was.
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