Here’s our monthly summary of precinct-by-precinct Vision Zero progress in Queens.  Highlights:

• Boroughwide there have been about 2,166 ped/cyclist injuries and fatalities so far this year, about 3.8% less than the average from the previous two years.  Citywide, pedestrian and cyclist injuries and fatalities are down 5.6% from the average of the two previous years.  In six Queens precincts (102, 104, 107, 110, 111, and 115) ped/cyclist injuries and fatalities are down by more than 10%.
• So far this year, there have been about 7,498 injuries and fatalities among motorists and passengers, about 7.6% lower than the average from the previous two years.  This figure has fallen by 9% citywide.  Eight Queens precincts (100, 103, 104, 105, 107, 109, 110, and 115) have seen reductions of 10% or more.
• Tickets issued for Speeding and Failure to Yield for Pedestrians continue to be issued at a significantly higher pace than in previous years in nearly every precinct in Queens.
• In August, most Queens precincts significantly increased their enforcement of red-light running (“Failure to Stop at Signal”) relative to their enforcement rates earlier in the year.  Tickets issued for red-light running in Queens now stands at 30% higher than the 2012-13 average.
• Enforcement against illegal cell phone use while driving remains very low.  The 103rd Precinct remains the only one with higher enforcement levels in 2014 than in 2012-13.
• Queens continues to lead the city as a whole in terms of increasing enforcement against speeding.   It lags the city as a whole in terms of reducing traffic injuries, enforcing failure to stop at signals, failure to yield to pedestrians, and driving while using cell phones.

As before, we recommend against drawing strong connections about changes in injury rates. Vision Zero is about changing the culture.  Enforcement, education, and engineering changes will take time to translate into safer behavior.  Also, the precincts are starting at different baseline levels of enforcement and injury rates, and they’re doing a lot of hard work on driver education that doesn’t translate directly into tickets issued. We’re tracking progress, but believe we should allow more time before we start drawing conclusions.

Keeping in mind that the precincts are all starting from different baselines, here are the precincts that are leading the way, relative to their averages for 2012 and 2013: