Starting this month, the Tallahassee Police Department will be conducting “proactive patrols” in designated areas in hopes of reducing “the number of crashes related to pedestrians and bicyclists.”
TPD will be using high visibility enforcement measures to ensure road safety and to educate drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists through May 2025, according to a news release from the city of Tallahassee.
“Tallahassee is one of the top 10 cities in the state for traffic crashes resulting in serious or fatal injuries to pedestrians and bicyclists,” the news release says. “Thus far in 2024, five pedestrians and one bicyclist suffered fatal injuries in traffic crashes.”
According to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles’ Florida Crash Dashboard , there have been 148 pedestrian-related crashes and 50 bicycle-related crashes in Leon County so far this year. Of those, eight pedestrians and and one cyclist have been hit and killed.
While the focus of the initiative is on education, drivers could still receive warnings and citations based on the circumstances, the city said. The heightened enforcement is an effort to “increase compliance and awareness regarding traffic laws” in areas that have a high number of traffic crashes.