32 people died in crashes on dangerous Sacramento roads last year. This is who we lost
Since 2017 — the year Sacramento’s City Council promised to eliminate traffic deaths by 2027 — more than 300 people have died in collisions on city streets.
If the number comes up at all, it’s often presented as just that: a number, without names or stories. In 2024, The Sacramento Bee attempted to document the real human loss in California’s capital by writing about every person who was killed in a crash inside the city limits.
Last year, 32 people died in this ongoing crisis, most of them on the 14% of roadways that the city has identified as the most dangerous.
This is who they were.
Ariane Lange
The Sacramento Bee