Traffic Safety

If you think people are driving more dangerously, you’re right. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration estimates that in the first nine months of 2021, there was a 12% increase in the number of deaths from traffic crashes from the year before. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and Police Chief Robert Contee announced new enforcement measures around schools starting Monday in an effort to reduce pedestrian injuries and fatalities.

News4’s Mark Segraves reports that frustrated drivers are asking Mayor Muriel Bowser for help.

News4’s Jackie Bensen reports that residents feel forced to stay off congested main roads due to drivers.

After a 5-year-old girl was struck and killed while riding her bicycle last week in a D.C. neighborhood, residents said Wednesday they “want to make Brookland the slowest neighborhood in the city.”

A local community is pleading for one single traffic light. Parents and residents near Stenwood Elementary School in Vienna say it’s next to impossible to get out of the parking lot of the school safely because traffic goes too fast and can’t be seen easily. News4’s Adam Tuss reports.