Over the past five years, 198 people in Lexington have been killed in car crashes in Fayette County.
The number of people with serious, life-threatening injuries topped 530 from 2020 to 2024, according to Lexington Police Department and Kentucky State Police data.
A Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council special task force — STREEET, or Shared Travel Requires Engineering Education and Enforcement of Traffic — released initial recommendations to make Lexington’s streets safer for motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists on Tuesday during a council work session…