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Page 2 <br /> <br />Annual Collision Analysis 2026 <br />Summary <br /> <br />This report summarizes the collisions within the City in 20251 and analyzes trends and patterns2 to <br />identify changes that can be made to reduce the number of collisions. Reported traffic collisions <br />involving vehicles, bicyclists and pedestrians are reviewed on a weekly basis by Traffic Engineering. <br />The weekly review looks at individual collisions to determine if improvements can be made to improve <br />safety. This annual report takes a comprehensive look at the one-year and three-year trends to identify <br />larger patterns and improvements that can improve safety. Intersection trends are summarized <br />annually; midblock and bike/ped analyses rely on multi-year windows because low frequencies require <br />longer periods to identify patterns. <br />Improvements are countermeasures designed to address a collision pattern. The Federal Highway <br />Administration and Caltrans collaborated to match typical collision patterns with proven <br />countermeasures to improve safety by cataloging them into tables which appear in Section 4.2 of the <br />Caltrans Local Road Safety Manual (LRSM). This report utilizes these tables to identify solutions to the <br />City’s collision patterns. The full list of countermeasures is included as an attachment to this report 3. <br />Unlike other local road safety plans, which may be renewed every few years, staff elected to <br />commission collision analysis and improvements reports yearly to provide the most flexibility <br />identifying collision trends and implementing countermeasures. <br />Volume Trends <br />The pandemic caused a significant decrease in vehicle traffic and a corresponding decrease in overall <br />collisions. However, traffic has largely returned to at or near pre-pandemic levels. Peak-hour vehicle <br />volumes in 2025 were approximately 88% (AM) and 85% (PM) of pre-pandemic levels. <br />Collision Trends <br />The total number of collisions for the current year <br />was 282, which is about the same as last year but <br />6% less than the previous three-year average of <br />300. The 340 collisions reported in 2023 appears to <br />be an outlier and not a new trend. <br /> <br /> <br />1 This report primarily reviews collisions occurring 12/1/2024 to 11/30/2025 (referred to as “current year” in this report) and <br />12/1/2022 to 11/30/2025 (referred to the current three-year period in this report) <br />2 Our latest Collision Pattern Analysis Procedure is included as Attachment “B” to this report <br />3 The full countermeasures list is included as Attachment “A” to this report <br />411 398 375 347 <br />235 246 276 340 285 282 <br />2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 <br />Total Collisions <br />Total