PROJECT OVERVIEW
The Village of Wellington is developing a Vision Zero Action Plan. This Plan will guide policies and programs with the goal of eliminating traffic crashes that result in fatalities and severe injuries along Wellington’s roadways. The Village of Wellington's Vision Zero initiative strives to improve safety for everyone traveling around the village, whether walking, cycling, driving, horseback riding, or taking riding transit, and to improve the identified high-crash injury locations, all in an effort to prevent fatal and severe injury crashes. The Vision Zero Action Plan sets an ambitious long-term goal to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries from occurring along Wellington roadways. Vision Zero programs prioritize safety over other transportation goals, acknowledge that traffic fatalities and serious injuries are preventable, and incorporate a multidisciplinary Safe System approach.
The core belief of Vision Zero is that fatal and severe injury crashes are unacceptable and preventable. This approach to safety couples education, data-driven decision-making, and community engagement with context-sensitive, people-centric street designs that account for human error, promote slower speeds and improve mobility for all users. With the Vision Zero approach, Wellington’s departments and residents work together to make village streets safer and meet the goal of zero deaths and serious injuries attributable to traffic crashes in Wellington by 2030.
VILLAGE OF WELLINGTON - VISION ZERO RESOLUTION 2022
Wellington, Florida formally adopted Vision Zero, an ambitious commitment to eliminate traffic fatalities by 2030, through City Council Resolution R2022-15 passed in July 2022 mandating a safe systems approach and equitable action plan aimed at saving lives on local roads.
WHAT IS VISION ZERO?
Vision Zero is an international effort to eliminate all fatal and serious injury traffic crashes. Adopted by more than 40 communities across the United States, it is a heartfelt belief that these crashes are preventable and that changed attitudes and approaches will enable success.
Vision Zero is based on five key principles
Traffic deaths and severe injuries are preventable.
Human life and health are prioritized within all aspects of transportation systems.
Human error is inevitable, and transportation systems should be forgiving.
Safety work should focus on systems-level change above influencing individual behavior.
Speed is recognized as the fundamental factor in crash severity.
Vision Zero encourages cities to adopt policies and implement programs and procedures that can eliminate the potential for serious injury and fatal traffic-related crashes to occur. Wellington’s goal is to eliminate all serious injury and fatal traffic-related crashes by 2030.
What if you could stop time just before a crash happens and maybe prevent it? Or, what if you could ask what the drivers were thinking? This YouTube video shares with us the conversation that occurs between the drivers of two vehicles stopped in time just before they collide.
When we hear the statistic of the number of people killed in traffic crashes, does it seem high? If it does, what do you think would be a more acceptable number? This YouTube video asks a person that very question while exploring the humanity behind the 'more acceptable number' he suggests.
HOW DOES THIS RELATE TO YOU?
As you think about your family, friends, and acquaintances, is there anyone that you would be accepting of being killed or seriously injured in a traffic crash? Would you miss them and mourn them? You would not tolerate a baby product to remain on the market if it injured children. You would demand tainted foods that made people sick to be removed from grocery stores. You expect that the water you drink to be free from contaminants. You have zero tolerance for these and similar things. Yet, in the US nearly 40,000 people are killed each year on our roadways. Florida has one of the highest rates of fatal traffic crashes of any state. So, why is this considered acceptable? Frankly, it is not and we individually and collectively should make changes in our attitudes, expectations, and approaches to achieve the goal of no one being killed or severely injured when traveling along, around, and across our roadways.
GOALS
Eliminate all fatal and severe injury traffic crashes in Wellington by the target year of 2030.
Adopt a Safe Systems approach to transportation planning and road design that considers the safety needs of all users – pedestrians, cyclists, transit riders, equestrians, and motorists – regardless of age, ability or identity.
Use equitable engineering solutions and infrastructure improvements to enhance safety across all neighborhoods.
Expand enforcement efforts, educational programs, and policies aimed at inappropriate driving behaviors that are leading causes of crashes and injuries.
REPORT YOUR AREA OF CONCERN
The Vision Zero Action Plan requires public outreach because it aims to improve road safety and reduce traffic fatalities, and gathering feedback from the community can help ensure the plan addresses their concerns and needs.
Your input is essential for the success of Wellington's Vision Zero Action Plan. Click the button below to provide us with your concerns regarding traffic and safety on the Village's roads.
Sample comments -
This roadway segment is unsafe for walking and biking.
Cars don't stop at this stop-controlled intersection.
Speeding on this roadway segment.
Note: The Village may be required to disclose certain information that you provide as part of your feedback regarding Vision Zero Action Plan.
RESOURCES
CRASH FACT SHEET
A Vision Zero team is working on summarizing the results of the analysis of collisions that have occurred in the Village of Wellington between January 2013 and December 2022. This space will be updated to show the findings of the Collision Analysis.
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wellington’s Vision Zero Resolution
The Village of Wellington adopted a Vision Zero resolution as of July 2022 which directs staff to develop a Vision Zero Action Plan for achieving the goals of eliminating traffic fatalities and reducing serious injuries due to traffic crashes through the adoption of a safe system approach for vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians, equitable engineering, enforcement, education, data-driven decision making, and social equity considerations in road safety planning and implementation.
Collision History (2013-2022)
The map below shows collisions that occurred in the Village of Wellington from January 2013 to December 2022.
How to Navigate the Map
Navigate the map to find collision hot spots.
Use mouse wheel or provided buttons to zoom in and out.
Pan by selecting the map or using your device's touch screen.
Collisions are color-coded to correspond to collision severity.
Click the interactive legend button in the top right corner to view the map legend which shows the color for each collision severity.
Click on the arrows at the bottom-right of the map to expand the interactive map in new window.
Use the interactive legend to view collisions of each severity. Select each collision for more details.
Under "Open Layer list" (located on the top-right of the map), find layers to either view the collision heat map or the collision them selves.
Coding for each field can be found in the Signal Four Analytics Data Dictionary.
We want your comments and suggestions!
Collision History Map
Wellington’s Vision Zero Action Plan Will Be Available Shortly
The Village’s Vision Zero Action Plan will guide policies and programs with the goal of eliminating fatalities on local roadways. The Plan focuses on providing near term recommendations to rapidly implement safety improvements and begin the systemic changes needed to fully realize Vision Zero. Many recommended engineering treatments, enforcement directives and educational programs can and will be rolled out quickly over the first year. But Wellington also understands that fundamentally improving traffic safety and ending senseless tragedies will require a generational commitment to changing culture, infrastructure and mobility planning. With sustained vision and dedication to protecting human life as the top priority, the Village believes its ambitious goal of zero severe injuries and death due to preventable crashes can become a reality over the next decade. This Action Plan provides the comprehensive roadmap to get Wellington to zero.