Mourners gathered downtown Wednesday to remember at least 32 people killed in vehicle crashes in Sacramento last year. The sunset vigil came a day after a pedestrian was killed on Fruitridge Road in what appears to be the California capital’s first fatal collision of the year.
The vigil, hosted at John C. Fremont Park by Slow Down Sacramento, drew more than 70 people, including several grieving families. Speakers called for a more serious response to fatal collisions, which are often preventable through changes to infrastructure and policy.
Michelle Silva, now a Slow Down Sacramento board member, described a sense of dissonance in the year and five months since her husband, José Luis Silva, died in a crash at J and 24th streets. He was 55…