Note: General information on the Top 20 intersections, with criteria, list, and map, is available in post 1.
I am looking more closely at the Top 20 intersections identified in the City of Sacramento Vision Zero Action Plan Update. Intersection 5 is DelPaso Blvd & Evergreen St & Lampasas Ave Note that I have skipped intersection 3, Truxel & Arena, because it is unclear why this was included on the Top 20.
Design
Del Paso Blvd is 5 lanes (two through, one left turn, and two opposite). Unprotected Class 2 bike lanes are present, but are advisory approaching the intersection with no green paint or protection. Evergreen Street is two lanes. Lampasas Avenue is three lanes (one through, one right turn, one opposing). There are marked crosswalks on all four legs, low visibility parallel lines. There are no concrete medians.
A no parking zone on Lampasas northbound leaves a very wide travel lane of about 22 feet, and a lack of parking on Evergreen northbound leaves a very wide travel lane of about 18 feet. There is a sidewalk gap on the last parcel of Evergreen northbound.
Del Paso Blvd posted speed limit is 35 mph. Evergreen Street posted speed limit is 30 mph, despite being largely residential in nature. Lampasas Avenue posted speed limit is 30 mph.
Crashes
In the 2015 to 2024 period (which is used in the Vision Zero Action Plan Update), there were four severe injuries at this intersection, two with bicyclists and two with motor vehicles, mapped below (pdf). One dot contains three crashes. Please note that the exact crash locations may not be accurate, as police reports often do not correctly locate crashes. Also note that ‘pedestrian violation’ entry may be false, as police often blame crashes on the person walking when actual responsibility is not clear, or the pedestrian is dead and can’t counter the driver story.
The orange dots are severe injuries (one contains three crashes); the red dots are fatal (none). Together, these are know as KSI = killed or severe injury. ‘Other visible injury’ and ‘complaint of pain’ crashes are not shown on my map, since these are not the focus of Vision Zero, however, there are quite a number of these at this intersection, particularly on Cosumnes River Blvd, which you may view in the Crash Dashboard Interactive Map.
The crash details, available in the Vision Zero Crash Dashboard Interactive Map, are below.
