San Francisco
Traffic Violence

Every 2.89 hours a driver hurts someone in San Francisco with their motor vehicle. In 2024 drivers killed 41 people on our streets.
It's past time to end this madness.
By Stephen Braitsch
Data Updated August 8th, 2025 – 2:56 AM

In 2014, San Francisco instituted a Vision Zero program committing the city to zero traffic related fatalities by 2024. Since San Francisco's Vision Zero program went into effect 11 years ago, 357 people have been killed  and 3,510 have been seriously injured by impatient and distracted drivers on its streets.

According to the San Francisco Department of Public Health, a driver crashes their car AND injures someone with it approximately every 2.89 hours in San Francisco. That is more than 8 times per day, every single day and yet the majority of San Francisco's elected officials refuse to take this public health crisis seriously or even acknowledge when a pedestrian is killed in their district.

As San Francisco continues to lose approximately 40 people to traffic violence each year, it is clear that the city's current approach to Vision Zero isn't working. Instead of spending millions on signs and awareness campaigns that drivers ignore, San Francisco should be investing in infrastructure projects that prioritize pedestrians, force drivers to slow down and make it safer to walk, bike and scoot across the city.

This project is a live dashboard and map that tracks every motor vehicle related fatality on San Francisco's streets and attempts to identify the victims and circumstances surrounding each crash. The goal of this project is to help you work with your elected officials to demand they take immediate and aggressive action to slow our streets and prioritize your family's safety over driver convenience and the expediency of cars.

Motor Vehicle Fatalities by Year

Since San Francisco adopted its Vision Zero program in 2014, 357 people have been killed by traffic violence on its streets. That equates to a traffic related fatality every 11.76 days. The most recent fatality was on June 2nd which was 2 months ago.  San Francisco was due to experience its next traffic related fatality on June 14th which was 55 days ago.  As of today, August 8th, there have been 13 traffic related fatalities so far this year. San Francisco currently averages about 40 traffic related fatalities each year.

Pedestrians
Motorcyclists
Motorists
Bicycles & Scooters

Motor Vehicle Fatalities Running Average

This chart shows San Francisco's current daily running average of traffic fatalities for the year. This is calculated by dividing the number of days since the beginning of the year for each fatality by the number of fatalites recorded by that date, divided by 365. As times passes without a fatality, the daily running average decreases and conversely rises when someone is killed.

Motor Vehicle Injuries by Month

Approximately every 2.89 hours a driver crashes their car and injures someone with it in San Francisco. This chart shows the number of vehicle related injuries by month and the victim's mode of transit.

Crash data is sourced from the San Francisco Department of Public Health who typically publish new data every 3 months. The most recent data available is through June 30th, 2025.

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Motorcyclists
Motorists
Bicycles & Scooters

Motor Vehicle Injuries By Supervisor District

A safe, healthy and equitable city starts and ends with political will. All of the elected officials below have the authority to direct the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency to expedite safety improvement projects in their district to protect you and your family. This section tracks the number of vehicle related injuries that have occurred since each elected official has taken office and will soon provide an interactive dashboard that shows how public safety issues in each district are trending over time.

Daniel Lurie
Mayor – San Francisco
Total Injuries
1,593
Injury Every
3.19 Hours
Minor
1,459
Severe
122
Fatal
12
Connie Chan
Supervisor – District 1
Total Injuries
873
Injury Every
1.92 Days
Minor
787
Severe
75
Fatal
11
Stephen Sherrill
Supervisor – District 2
Total Injuries
99
Injury Every
2.35 Days
Minor
89
Severe
10
Fatal
0
Danny Sauter
Supervisor – District 3
Total Injuries
205
Injury Every
1.03 Days
Minor
189
Severe
15
Fatal
1
Joel Engardio
Supervisor – District 4
Total Injuries
346
Injury Every
2.73 Days
Minor
321
Severe
22
Fatal
3
Bilal Mahmood
Supervisor – District 5
Total Injuries
186
Injury Every
1.14 Days
Minor
167
Severe
18
Fatal
1
Matt Dorsey
Supervisor – District 6
Total Injuries
1,895
Injury Every
15.03 Hours
Minor
1,709
Severe
170
Fatal
16
Myrna Melgar
Supervisor – District 7
Total Injuries
1,018
Injury Every
1.65 Days
Minor
929
Severe
77
Fatal
12
Rafael Mandelman
Supervisor – District 8
Total Injuries
1,696
Injury Every
1.52 Days
Minor
1,523
Severe
162
Fatal
11
Jackie Fielder
Supervisor – District 9
Total Injuries
228
Injury Every
22.32 Hours
Minor
218
Severe
9
Fatal
1
Shamann Walton
Supervisor – District 10
Total Injuries
2,594
Injury Every
22.24 Hours
Minor
2,347
Severe
218
Fatal
29
Chyanne Chen
Supervisor – District 11
Total Injuries
95
Injury Every
2.23 Days
Minor
90
Severe
4
Fatal
1

About This Project

The following resources guided our research and we thank the authors for their work:

Crash data is sourced from the San Francisco Department of Public Health who typically publish new data every 3 months. Traffic Fatalities are added as soon as we learn of them.

This project was designed and developed by Stephen Braitsch with research support from Lindsay Meisel.