Cameras on California Roads Could help with pedestrians deaths

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Far too many pedestrians are dying on California’s streets.

Pedestrian deaths have been rising nationwide over the last decade, and last year they reached their highest level in 41 years. In California, an estimated 1,100 pedestrians were killed in 2022, making the fatality rate in the state 25 percent higher than the national average.

Some traffic safety advocates are banking on a bill that’s moving through the California Legislature. It would make California the 19th state to install cameras that would automatically issue tickets to the owners of vehicles that are spotted exceeding the speed limit by at least 11 miles an hour. According to the National Transportation Safety Board, speeding is a factor in one-third of traffic fatalities nationwide.

“It’s not going to solve everything, but we need all the tools we can get,” said Damian Kevitt, the executive director of Streets Are For Everyone, a traffic safety nonprofit based in Los Angeles that supports the bill. “It’s quite truthfully, at this point, a public health crisis.”

Los Angeles had more pedestrian deaths than any other metro area in the US