This map shows fatal crashes that we’ve compiled from news reports and police blotters in El Paso County over the past year between December 2022 to November 2023. We have only captured the fatal crashes on this map there are at countless more that have left residents and visitors with life altering injuries as well as mental trauma.

Thank you to the families who have provided pictures and obituaries for their lost loved ones:

Jace Adisen Bajza, Lillian Grace Flannery & her mother Samantha Lee Flannery, Shaylee Gipson, Maxwell Johnson, Willie Ray Pilcher, William Sutter, and Amanda Trujillo

Tracking Colorado Springs Car Violence

COS CARS KILL is a group of Colorado Springs and El Paso County residents tracking the damages of car centered planning including:
fatalities, life changing injuries, cost, time, congestion, inconvenience and property damage

And we advocate for people centered planning:
Community, convenience, safety, beauty, local businesses, freedom, autonomy, safe routes for children

Specific Interventions

Go to our TAKE ACTION page to learn about how you can help

Below are specific treatments that we believe will dramatically improve safety for all roadway users at these locations where residents have lot their lives.

Palmer Roundabout
The Palmer Statue (AKA Man On Horse) in the middle of Nevada Ave and Platte Ave has caused numerous crashes and multiple deaths. This infrastructure needs to change and a roundabout is the most sensible solution. Sign our petition here to ask the city to change this intersection to a roundabout.

Traffic Calming Where Makaylyn Lee, 9, Was killed
sign the petition Make It Safe For Children Like Makaylyn Lee, 9, To Play Outside asking the city to install appropriate traffic calming to make the street where she lost her life safe for families.

South Academy Pedestrian Treatments
Increased lighting at night and reduced distances between pedestrian crossings.

Keep Platte Ave Four Lanes Wide Past Academy
There’s a proposal in the current Platte Ave Corridor Study to expand Platte to six lanes past Academy. Stop spending money on more lanes and put that money towards designing safer streets.

Takeaways

• Shorter pedestrian crossing distances
• Shorter distances between crosswalks
• Protected bike lanes
• Complete bike and pedestrian network
• Stop widening/extending roads and use that funding to make roads safer for drivers, transit, pedestrians, and bike riders
• No right on red