The city Department of Transportation is set to announce on Wednesday that pedestrian traffic deaths reached an “all-time low” for the first six months of this year since the launch of the city’s Vision Zero program to prevent such fatalities and serious injuries launched in 2014, amNewYork has learned.
There were 46 pedestrian deaths over the first two quarters of 2026 — marking a 13% drop from the 53 that occurred over the same period last year, the DOT told amNewYork ahead of its July 1 announcement. The only time there were less recorded pedestrian deaths over the same span was the first half of 2020, when the city’s streets were far emptier than usual, due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
