The Sacramento Police Department will ramp up enforcement of traffic safety violations in high-risk areas with new grant funding from the state, Chief Kathy Lester said in a city news release .
The $400,000 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety will run through September.
Sacramento has some of the worst traffic fatality rates in California, and last year, The Sacramento Bee reported on the deaths of 32 people . This year, records previously released by the Police Department show three crashes killed people between Jan. 1 and Feb. 13. Another severe crash made international news last month when Nilam Shinde, a 35-year-old engineer, was left in a coma after a collision on Fair Oaks Boulevard near Cadillac Drive. A representative for Sacramento State confirmed that Shinde, who immigrated from India, is a current graduate student in the university’s master’s program for business analytics. NDTV reported that she was hit not far from where Johnnie A. Fite, a cyclist, was fatally struck last June…