138-24 Exhibit to Resolution Adopting the Township of West Orange Vision Zero Action Plan.pdf

TRAFFIC SAFETY TRENDS CRASH DATA ANALYSIS OVERVIEW Vision Zero is data-driven, with fatal and severe injury (KSI)1 crashes as the focus of the analysis. The process began with an understanding of where and why fatal and injury crashes occurred in West Orange, revealing the factors that contributed Vision Zero focuses on to the crashes and suggesting the appropriate crashes where victims are countermeasures to address them. seriously injured or killed In November 2022, the project team obtained crash data from NJDOT's Safety Voyager crash tool, and From 2015-2021 in West from NJDHTS's Numetric Tool. Seven (7) years of Orange Township: crash data were downloaded (2015 through 2021) • 17 fatal crashes for analysis. A technical memorandum of the detailed • 28 crashes with serious 12 crash data analysis was submitted and is on file with injuries West Orange Township and NJDOT. Key findings are highlighted in the following pages. Serious injuries have increased from 2018 5 5 According to Safety Voyager data, a total of 8,548 3 3 3 3 3 crashes occurred within West Orange Township from 2015-2021. This is equivalent to over three crashes 1 1 1 2 2 1 occurring every single day in West Orange. During 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 the same time period, there occurred 17 fatal crashes Fatal Injury Suspected Serious Injury and 28 severe injury crashes, averaging over two fatal crashes and four severe injury crashes per year. While acknowledging that West Orange Township will only have direct control over crashes occurring on local streets, this analysis includes all crashes within the Township including

crashes per year. While acknowledging that West Orange Township will only have direct control over crashes occurring on local streets, this analysis includes all crashes within the Township including county roads and state highways such as I-280 and Route 10. Overall, the total number of fatal crashes has stayed the same over the 7-year period; however, severe injury crashes have steadily increased. 2 1 Crashes where victims are Killed or Seriously Injured 2 In 2019, New Jersey updated the police crash report to be consistent with the federally required injury classifications that may have resulted in the jump in severe injuries in 2019. The HIN development takes into account fatal, severe and minor injury crashes to account for this change. WEST ORANGE TOWNSHIP: VISION ZERO ACTION PLAN 23