After years of climbing traffic deaths in San Francisco, the city turned a corner in 2025, with fatalities dropping by 42% from a year earlier.
There were 25 traffic deaths in 2025, according to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, the fewest since 2017. In 2024, when the city saw multiple “rare, high severity crashes,” there were 43 deaths.
The decrease, though, is another reminder of the failure of San Francisco’s “Vision Zero” program. Adopted in 2014, the initiative aimed to eliminate traffic deaths by 2024…