Tacoma Police Department announcement.
Tacoma, Wash. – In 2022, the Tacoma Police Department’s Collision Investigation Team responded to 45 callouts, including 21 fatality collisions and 24 serious injury collisions. In the first two months of this year, the team has already responded to 8 traffic collision callouts, including 6 traffic fatalities and 3 collisions resulting in serious injuries. Traffic officers continue to find speed as a contributing factor in these deadly collisions.
Tacoma Traffic officers ask that you follow these driving tips to save lives:
- Follow the posted speed limits
- Talk to young drivers in your household about the risks associated with speeding
- Always use a seatbelt, and make sure your passengers do also
- Don’t use alcohol or narcotics if you are driving
- Don’t drive distracted
In an effort to enhance traffic safety, the City of Tacoma has reduced speed limits in multiple locations throughout the city. For more information, go to Vision Zero – City of Tacoma.
Let’s work together to help ensure everyone gets to their destinations safely.
Vision 2000 is doomed without aggressive traffic enforcement.
If the city doesn’t enforce minor traffic laws which are proven to remove unlawful drivers from the street and encourage general obedience of the traffic code, the current scoff law behavior will continue. The auto theft situation would be a good bell weather of the chances of Vision 2000.
From the city who won’t pursue, enforce, or even write tickets.
Lower the speed limits, with no actual money for enforcement.
Honestly when was the last time the traffic division was deployed? Can’t, its In name only. Ok maybe three of four motorcycles cops for display purposes. It’s been awhile since I’ve seen one on a road in this city. No speed traps, no school zone, no activity with radar guns.
What is so hard about having speed and safety enforcement? Fife gets it, you don’t speed in Fife. More tickets the population is the reputation.
Come on man, step up.
Hire,, deploy, have a presence on Tacoma’s streets.
A huge shout out to these officers who put their lives on the line every single day!!! Hopefully this will slow things down a bit.
Thank you for all you do!
Tacoma leadership has zero vision so they couldn’t have come up with a better name than Vision Zero!
The people who will observe the new speed limits are the same people observing the speed limit today!
This will do nothing to reduce accidents.
The people who speed now are NOT going to all of a sudden stop because the limit was lowered, seriously what could you possibly be thinking?
As ridiculous as the No right turn on a red light.
If we had the officers to I force the Existing laws there wouldn’t be a need to inconvenience the law abiding drivers who actually stop before turning right instead of treating like a merge lane.
I’ve lived here over 60 years and Tacoma is actually doing nothing but getting worse and there is no light at the end of this tunnel.
I wonder when/if they’ll ever understand that selective enforcement of “laws” is not going to work. Consent to rule eroding.
Law enforcement at all levels should also set an example of following the posted speed limit unless they are responding to an emergency with their lights and sirens activated. So often I am passed on the freeway by law enforcement vehicles that are not apparently responding to an emergency call. I’d also say all government vehicles should be driven at the posted speed limit. Nobody is above the law and setting an example sends a powerful message.
Vision Zero means doing nothing, it means Zero Vision on enforcing the posted speed limits just about anywhere in my area. 100 plus miles per hour on my street is a weekly activity by this one knucklehead down the road somewhere from me, all year long, I have called for years on the speeder’s on my street, had it speed checked twice, its posted @ 30mph, average speed from local area 45mph, upper average, 65mph, top speed all the time 100plus, meaning around 125 to 135mph in a 30mph zone. Nobody is home, its just luck that once per year a cop will pull over and do a speed check, we had a petition go around in 2015, 200 home owner’s signed it and it went to the city council eh, nobody did anything, hasn’t changed in over 45 yrs since I have been living in my home. Zero Vision…………………………………………………….Give me a badge, a fast car, a suitcase of fresh ticket books and I can pay for every cop on the force for one month of wages on my street alone from speeders!! I will dub that, ZERO SPEEDER’S!!!!