Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 08/10/2026Safety advocates: what other points would you add to this? 183 8
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 24/09/2026Do you agree that our federal officials need to do more to address traffic violence? We thought so. Please join @smartgrowthusa.bsky.social in urging Congress to prioritize safety and end our pedestrian safety crisis! 🔗 Link to take action: smartgrowthamerica.salsalabs.org/2026_dangero... 042 4
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 21/09/2026Bruce Morlack sacrificed his life to save school children from a speeding driver. Sadly, Bruce is one of 3 New Jersey crossing guards killed on the job in as many years. Today is NJ's Pedestrian Crosswalk Safety Day, honoring crossing guards like Bruce: vtc.rutgers.edu/3-crossing-g... 073 7
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 21/09/2026Why is legislation like this needed? As Nadya points out in the Wisconsin State Journal: "The suspension is a formality." 011 1
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 21/09/2026"This is not a mandate on ordinary drivers. It says to a convicted super speeder: You can keep driving, and your car will help you do it legally." Nadya Rosen, whose son was killed by a speeding driver, makes the case for the use of ISA in Wisconsin: madison.com/opinion/colu... 190 9
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 16/09/2026Unacceptable: A new survey from @ghsahq.bsky.social finds that nearly HALF of school children have had a close call with a driver near a bus or in a school zone 😡 Check out the full report: www.ghsa.org/news/school-... 0107 10
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 15/09/2026World Day of Remembrance is coming up 🕯️ If there isn't an event planned in your community, join the next organizing Zoom call to learn more about hosting at the link below. #WDoR2026 #SafetyNotSpeed @visionzeronet.bsky.social @roadtozero.bsky.social 🔗 secure.everyaction.com/p/v6gIL2U7fU... 🔗 044 4
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 11/09/2026Myth: “When crossing the street, stay alert” Reality: No amount of pedestrian alertness can control drivers who are distracted or speeding 110 1
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 11/09/2026Myth: “Never cross midblock. Always cross at crosswalks or intersections” Reality: The nearest crosswalk often requires a long, indirect detour—if a safe crossing exists at all 110 1
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 11/09/2026Myth: “Always walk on the sidewalk” Reality: Many streets have sidewalks that are missing, disconnected or impossible to reach safely 110 1
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 11/09/2026Myth: “Just follow the rules of the road to stay safe” Reality: The “rules” often restrict where people can walk—while cars often block sidewalks, crosswalks and bike lanes 110 1
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 11/09/2026🧵🧵🧵 Many official traffic safety guidelines in the U.S. shift responsibility to the most vulnerable road users, overlooking the role of street design, vehicle safety, and transportation policy. Here are some safety myths we're tired of hearing ⤵️ 141 4
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 08/09/2026Your regular reminder that crashes ≠ accidents. We owe it to the victims of traffic violence to acknowledge that their injuries and deaths are the result of a transportation system that tolerates dozens of serious crashes each day. 043 4
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 25/08/2026🚸 Robust crosswalks 🚶♂️ Human-scaled store fronts 🐌 Lowered speeds 🚌 Reliable public transit 🛑 Speed-limiting technology What street safety interventions did we miss? 020 2
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 24/08/2026Federal regulations do require rear underride guards on trailers. But thanks to the trucking lobby, there are no strength testing requirements, hindering the rule’s effectiveness. NHTSA could fix this by requiring and enforcing the the use of inexpensive equipment 180 8
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 24/08/2026In 2013, Marianne was driving on a Georgia highway with her son, Caleb, and daughters, AnnaLeah and Mary When traffic slowed down, a trailer hit her car from behind, causing them to slide backward underneath another truck, killing AnnaLeah and Mary 130 3
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 24/08/2026THREAD🧵🧵🧵 An underride crash, demonstrated in this video, is a particularly violent crash in which a car skids underneath a trailer, instantly severing the passenger compartment. The story of Marianne Karth underscores why we need to address this. 1173 17
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 21/08/2026This is alarming: A new study finds that in 2025, nearly 33K car crash patients required prehospital blood transfusions, underscoring the severity and toll traffic violence has on crash victims, first responders, and our medical system at large. Study🔗: rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/93039 041 4
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 21/08/2026Have you or a loved one been impacted by traffic violence? Do you want to support those who have been impacted? We invite you join Families for Safe Streets for support and advocacy, using the following link: secure.everyaction.com/rx89TpwAbkaU... 021 2
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 18/08/2026Street safety is a choice. Our roads and streets should be designed to protect the most vulnerable road users. Yet in the US, we too often design roads that encourage deadly speed, leaving cyclists, pedestrians, and people with disabilities at a high risk. 030 3
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 10/08/2026These U.S. headlines all occurred within the LAST 24 HOURS. A reminder that these are the types of consequences we choose to accept when we tolerate traffic violence. Crashes ≠ accidents. 01813 18
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 05/08/2026Speeding is one of the dumbest things we do. If being dangerous isn’t a convincing enough reason to follow the speed limit, a new study finds that speeding barely saves time on our commutes while costing us at the pump. Speeding simply isn't worth it. 🔗 to study: www.nature.com/articles/s44... 0101 10
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 24/07/2026We're continuing to hold Riley O'Neil and Louisa Gag in our hearts ❤️❤️ Two cities, two strikingly similar tragedies, just over a month apart. These preventable deaths, along with too many others everyday, remind us how important their efforts were, and how much work remains in front of us. 0162 16
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 22/07/2026Thank you to Andrew Miller of the Changing Lanes newsletter for the thoughtful review of our AV framework, Gain and Guard! Check out the newsletter, "Ten Times Safer" at the link below ⤵️ substack.com/@andrewmille... 020 2
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 15/07/20266,732 That's the number of pedestrians struck and killed by U.S. drivers in 2025, according to a new report from @ghsahq.bsky.social. The report breaks down recent trends and offers insights to what's behind this unacceptable level of traffic violence. 🔗: www.ghsa.org/resource-hub... 051 5
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 10/07/2026Speed limiting devices coming to every vehicle? License suspensions are an effective deterrent? These are some of the misleading claims and outright lies promoted in a recent video from Car Coach. Thanks for giving the opportunity to set the record straight! 📽️📽️ 022 2
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 29/06/2026"If AVs are going to be on our roads… then we need to be able to trust, as human beings, that they are safe." Last week, Marco Conner led an informative webinar on autonomous vehicles. Learn more about how we're evaluating AV safety: www.familiesforsafestreets.org/autonomous-v... 132 3
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 25/06/2026Gary Eckstein and Alan Mukamal are currently biking across the U.S. to raise awareness and funds for safe streets! 🚴♂️ 🚴♂️ Follow along and consider supporting their fundraising efforts here: mukish.com/blog/cycling... 121 2
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 21/06/2026Tragic and preventable news out of Fairfax, VA 😠 Northern Virginia Families for Safe Streets has been sounding the alarm on the dangerous road conditions that contribute to these fatalities. The deaths include a motorcyclist and four pedestrians. 030 3
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 12/06/2026Lots of alarming insights detailed in @smartgrowthusa.bsky.social's 2026 "Dangerous by Design" report, including a ranking of the most dangerous states and cities for pedestrians. Check out the full report ⤵️ 011 1
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 11/06/2026"I urge you to support this legislation so that fewer North Carolina families experience the loss that mine has endured." Learn more about the SEATBELT Act, including testimony from FSS member Allison Simpson, from WFNY 2: www.wfmynews2.com/article/news... 041 4
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 09/06/2026UPDATE: A NC House committee advanced the SEATBELT Act to require proven speeders to use Intelligent Speed Assistance tech as a condition of regaining their license👏👏 Thank you to the FSS members for your advocacy - NC residents, we need you to call on your state lawmakers to pass HB 1199! ☎️ 092 9
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 05/06/2026"Accountability after the fact was not enough to save my grandson." Op-ed by FSS member Wendy Salazar makes the case for proactive measures in NC to prevent traffic violence like the use of ISA technology to throttle drivers with a record of excessive speeding: nsjonline.com/article/2026... 021 2
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 03/06/2026“What we know is that 75% of people who have their licenses suspended continue to drive,”🗣️ IL Rep. Martha Deuter underscores the importance of the #StopSuperSpeeders legislation awaiting @govpritzker.illinois.gov 's signature 👉 www.dailyherald.com/20260528/cri... 172 7
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 26/05/2026Have you seen the "Changing Lanes" documentary? 🎬 🍿 It shows the struggle to redesign Brooklyn’s McGuinness Blvd, featuring the work of FSS members and advocates. Upcoming screenings are in CA, WI, NY, and FL and it will be available for streaming June 9: www.changinglanesdoc.com/screenings 130 3
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 21/05/2026ILLINOIS — Illinois’ Stop Super Speeders legislation, SB 3102 passed the Senate (49-9) yesterday after previously passing the full Illinois House (HB 4948) with a 77-24 vote. Read Full Press Release: www.familiesforsafestreets.org/news/illinoi... 051 5
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 20/05/2026“It is considered a necessary next step because existing measures, such as license suspensions and fines, are often ignored by these high-risk ‘super speeders.’” Op-ed highlights importance of @agounardes.bsky.social's #StopSuperSpeeders legislation in NY ⤵️ www.pressrepublican.com/opinion/did-... 010 1
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 15/05/2026"We are not anti-car or anti-driver. We are anti-crash." The medical community is turning its attention to the traffic violence epidemic that's been tolerated in the U.S. for too long. Check out the op-ed by Drs. @erictopol.bsky.social and Jonathan Slotkin: opmed.doximity.com/articles/an-... 081 8
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 15/05/2026“Margie was dearly loved, and she is never forgotten. She should still be here. Her death must not be in vain,” Read more about @ffsafestreets.bsky.social efforts to memorialize pedestrians killed on Toronto's streets: www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti... 081 8
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 13/05/2026With more states adopting ISA legislation to #StopSuperSpeeders, @ghsahq.bsky.social released a guide to help officials successfully advance a "High-Tech Solution to America’s Deadly Speeding Epidemic." Learn more and read the full report 👉 www.ghsa.org/news/states-... 043 4
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 12/05/2026Illinois' #StopSuperSpeeders bill advanced out of the Senate Transportation Committee today! 👏 👏 To get this bill to the finish line, we need IL residents to call on your state senator to support HB4948 📲 Learn more about the legislation: ipmnewsroom.org/illinois-tra... 0145 14
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 12/05/2026Good news from Hawai’i 🙌🙌 Lawmakers sent #StopSuperSpeeders legislation to Gov. Josh Green's desk, where it now awaits his signature: www.familiesforsafestreets.org/news/hawaii-... 030 3
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 06/05/2026"We can't wait... our families are hurting! People die on these streets every single day... right in front of my house" said @HenrySternCA as he stood with FSS members in support of AB 2276! 021 2
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 06/05/2026TODAY - @walksf @BayAreaFSS hosted advocacy day in Sacramento to advocate for AB 2276! Thank you, Assemblymember @esmeraldasoria.bsky.social and all the legislators who stood with us! Email your legislator secure.everyaction.com/a6uL951wZEu7... 111 1
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 28/04/2026A bunch of repeat egregious speeders with out-of-state plates have been getting away with endangering NYC school children, seniors, law-abiding residents just going about their day a @transalt.org investigation finds We need to #StopSuperSpeeders bc New Yorkers have a right to move about safely 1110 11
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 23/04/2026🚨Big news! The Illinois House recently passed the #StopSuperSpeeders legislation - thank you to crash survivor Rudy Faust and @rideillinois.bsky.social for your advocacy and to sponsors @repguzzardi39.bsky.social and Rep. Martha Deuter for advancing HB4948 to the Senate! 050 5
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 23/04/2026Thanks, @smartgrowthusa.bsky.social for putting the modest declines in traffic fatalities in recent years in perspective. Roads in the U.S. remain unacceptably dangerous. The US is a total outlier among wealthy nations. www.smartgrowthamerica.org/knowledge-hu... 020 2
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 21/04/2026“I left that hospital with my son’s blood on my face and my clothes,” Joe Martinez is turning his son’s death into advocacy by working to pass @esmeraldasoria.bsky.social's AB 2276 to #StopSuperSpeeders in CA. Via @fresnobee.com: www.fresnobee.com/opinion/read... www.fresnobee.com/opinion/read... 021 2
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 16/04/2026Deborah was injured in the same DC crash that killed her husband (shown below). 😭 “It changed my life tremendously," she said. "I was a healthy person. I worked. I went from one medication to nine different medications.” 010 1
Families for Safe Streets @familiesforsafestreets.org · 16/04/2026"It's sad that a human being could get ran over like they a piece of trash. And I wish I could have saved my husband." -Deborah O’Garro-Kelly, wife of the late Alton Kelly, in an interview with The National Desk thenationaldesk.com/news/spotlig... 142 4