Indianapolis creates Fatal Crash Review Team to evaluate road dangers

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A five-person Deadly Crash Assessment Crew will quickly start work to guage harmful streets and intersections the place lethal crashes have occurred round Indianapolis.

Dan Parker, the director of the Division of Public Works, instructed Information 8 on Thursday night time, “A number of this comes right down to driver inattention; a whole lot of it comes right down to what drivers are doing on the market post-pandemic. Individuals are driving quicker.”

The crew is a part of Indianapolis’ Full Streets Ordinance. Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Division will appoint one member, the Division of Metropolitan Growth will choose one other, Public Works additionally could have a consultant. Bicycle security advocate Damon Richards was named to the board Thursday by the Public Works Fee. The Indianapolis Metropolis-County Council will appoint a fifth individual to the board.

The Public Works director describes the crew’s duties. “People collect details about the precise space, analyze it, and there must be a public assembly that may be publicized.”

The board might suggest adjustments for an intersection or street the place a deadly crash occurred.

Parker mentioned, “There must be formal suggestions if there are some environmental elements that must be checked out, whether or not or not it’s timber that must be trimmed again, whether or not there must be a site visitors mild put in, sidewalks put in, or bump-outs or crosswalks.”

Though a poorly designed street is probably not the reason for each crash, the board is one other device metropolis officers can use to maintain the streets secure.

“Any deadly crash that we will stop is only one extra person who we maintain secure,” Parker mentioned.

This board is barely designed to evaluate crashes which have already occurred.

People who find themselves wish to voice their issues about harmful intersections can name the Mayor’s Motion Heart.