Highland Safe Streets for All

Vision Zero is a strategy to eliminate all traffic fatalities and severe injuries, while increasing safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all.

Vision Zero is a traffic safety philosophy that lays out a new set of principles for engineering roads, educating travelers, and creating a sense of collective responsibility for ourselves and our fellow travelers. It focuses on data collection and analysis to identify and evaluate effective treatments while 

incorporating the following core principles:

• Saving Lives: Human life and health are the highest priority within all aspects of transportation systems.
• Prevention: Traffic deaths and severe injuries are preventable.
• Safe Streets: Human error is inevitable, and transportation systems should be designed to anticipate error, so the consequences are not severe injury or death.
• Equity: All people have the right to travel safely through our community and we must work to eliminate disparities in transportation safety based on income, race, ability, age, language spoken and vehicle access.

According to the Indiana University Public Policy Institute, in partnership with the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute, Indiana, recent years have witnessed an alarming rise in traffic fatality rates. There were 964 traffic fatalities in Indiana in 2022, up from 900 in 2021. Traffic fatalities have risen in recent years to 14.1 per 100,000 of the state’s population – marking a 10-year high.