California’s stay-at-home order due to the coronavirus reduced vehicle collisions on roadways by roughly half, saving taxpayers an estimated $1 billion.
For years, the Cerpas sisters engaged in friendly competition, running their own dress shops. Now they’ve come together to make face masks.A reduction in traffic crashes was expected as people limited their vehicular travel to work, getting food and other essentials.
Traffic volumes were up to 55% lower for select highways compared with the volumes before the stay-at-home order. This resulted in significantly lower traffic collisions, the survey found. At the same time, the maximum and average traffic speeds slightly increased in certain highways by a few miles per hour.
Between March 21 and April 11, the average daily number of all traffic collisions was about 450. It was 1,128 during the same period last year. There was an estimated 40% decrease in injury incidents reported among hospitals in the Sacramento area, the survey said. This was especially true for pedestrians and bicyclists who saw a 50% reduction in traumatic injuries, compared with the same period in 2019.“There are still a lot of people driving. The remaining 50% of traffic is not just essential trips,” he said.
The traffic crash reductions temporarily reversed, however, during and following heavy rains on April 6 and 9 in Southern California. Though traffic volumes remained the same, it appears that the rain combined with higher speeds contributed to crashes briefly returning to the state’s normal collision levels — 1,000 to 1,500 collisions a day, the survey suggested.
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