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The plan was to reduce highway deaths to zero by 2030. Instead, we’re on path to triple the number of fatalities, producing EIGHT THOUSAND avoidable deaths of Washingtonians by 2030. BIPOC residents will be hit the hardest.
In 2018 our state lawmakers asked our Washington Transportation Highway Commission to create an ambitious plan to further improve road and highway safety. The Commission’s resulting comprehensive 296-page plan boldly set a stretch goal of eliminating ALL fatalities by 2030. They made progress at first. But then the legislature passed the non-pursuit law, RCW 10.116.060, that put us on path to instead nearly TRIPLE fatalities by 2030. If nothing changes, eight thousand Washingtonians are projected to be killed in car crashes by this ill-conceived law by the year 2030. Tens of thousands more will needlessly suffer head injuries, lose limbs, or sustain other life-altering maimings.
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