District of Columbia

Pedestrians are now twice as likely to be killed in the D.C. area as they were a decade ago, even as more local leaders promise safer streets. For the third consecutive year in 2024, the Washington region recorded more than 100 pedestrian deaths.

GHSA and the Ford Motor Company Fund provided $50,000 to help increase the District of Columbia Highway Safety Office engage with the city’s unhoused population about pedestrian and bicycle safety.

The District’s police department is dedicating five officers solely to street traffic enforcement, a new initiative responding to record-high fatalities on city streets, officials said Tuesday.

GHSA and GM are supporting grants to create and evaluate local distracted driving prevention programs in the District of Columbia (D.C.) and Washington state.