Vision Zero DC Crash Map

Case study · Policy

Read DC crash trends, map incidents and high-injury corridors, review safety laws and proposed bills, and draft a ward-specific ANC resolution from sourced findings.

What
Read DC crash trends, map incidents and high-injury corridors, review safety laws and proposed bills, and draft a ward-specific ANC resolution from sourced findings.
Stack
Leaflet over DC's live ArcGIS layer + a baked Python snapshot; Python and Node tests in CI.
Status
LIVE
Dates
Scope reviewed October 2, 2026; data dates shown in the app
Links
Live site · Source code

Background

Where does DC’s crash evidence point to a safety intervention?

Vision Zero DC connects the District’s official collision records to trends, high-injury corridors, countermeasures and public decision-making. It separates observed crash patterns from proposed interventions and unverified bill statuses.

A Look Inside

Each view shown on mobile and desktop — tap any image to open the live site.

The Safety Overview leads with an accountability scorecard (mobile) The Safety Overview leads with an accountability scorecard (desktop)
The Safety Overview leads with an accountability scorecard — deaths and KSI against DC's missed 2024 Vision Zero target — then breaks down who is being hurt by mode and which wards bear disproportionate crash risk.
The Crash Map queries DC's live ArcGIS crash layer in real time (mobile) The Crash Map queries DC's live ArcGIS crash layer in real time (desktop)
The Crash Map queries DC's live ArcGIS crash layer in real time — filter by date, severity, mode, and moving violations, then select any crash for a full incident case file. Hot spots and ward crash rates update as you pan.

How It Works

Scope reviewed October 2, 2026 · Project documentation. Source data keeps its published dates.

[View the Live Tool] | [View the Code]


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