Death Trends Over Time

On January 15, 2014, Mayor de Blasio announced the launch of Vision Zero in New York City, based on a similar program of the same name that was implemented in Sweden. The original Swedish theory hypothesizes that pedestrian deaths are not as much "accidents" as they are a failure of street design. Traffic injuries and traffic crashes in New York City under Mayor de Blasio have remained steady changed from when the Mayor implemented the plan through 2018, though deaths have decreased. However, this trend does not hold for cylists. Through July 2019, there have been 11 cylcist deaths compared to 11 for all of 2018.