Pedestrians in Washington, D.C., remain at serious risk even as overall traffic deaths declined in 2025. New data show that 25 people were killed in traffic crashes in the District in 2025, down from 52 deaths in 2024, a sharp year-to-year drop.
Even with that decline, pedestrians in the D.C. area were twice as likely to be killed in 2025 as they were a decade earlier, despite years of safety plans and repeated commitments to make streets safer.
“We’ve made such big investments and the improvements are showing,” said Sharon Kershbaum, director of the District Department of Transportation. “We just need to continue on this path to get those numbers down across the board,” she said…