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Traffic Safety in Long Beach

Live collision data and an interactive citywide crash map, sourced from California's official crash reporting system.

What the city promised on traffic deaths

In 2016, the City Council promised zero traffic deaths by 2026. That deadline is now — and deaths are still climbing.

How the commitment was made
In 2016, Long Beach adopted a Vision Zero resolution built on one idea: traffic deaths are preventable, not an inevitable cost of getting around. In July 2020, the Council formalized that into the Safe Streets Long Beach Action Plan, setting a hard target — eliminate traffic-related deaths and serious injuries citywide by 2026.
53 people died in traffic collisions in Long Beach in 2025 — the most in over a decade, and a sharp jump from 2024.
The data gap: The city's own Vision Zero data page still shows the same static charts published in 2020. The only source that's actually kept current is the state's crash database — the same one powering this entire page.
Why that's a real limit
There's no public dashboard tracking deaths and serious injuries against the 2026 goal, and the city hasn't published an annual Vision Zero progress report the way peer cities do. The state database that fills the gap comes with its own limits: recent months are filed on a rolling basis and can take a year or more to fully settle, so even outside researchers can't get a clean, real-time read on whether the city is on pace. Closing that gap with the data that is public is the point of this page.
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Total traffic collisions reported so far this year — Long Beach, all severities

How serious were these collisions?

Every collision report includes how many people were injured or killed. Here's the live severity mix for Long Beach so far this year, compared to the same period last year.

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Property-Damage-Only

A collision where no one was killed or injured — vehicles, property, or infrastructure were damaged, but everyone involved walked away.

Injury Collision

At least one person involved was injured, ranging from a minor complaint of pain to a severe, life-altering injury — but no one was killed.

Fatal Collision

At least one person died as a result of the collision. This is the figure the City's Vision Zero program tracks most closely.

The most common contributing factors

Every collision report cites a primary factor CHP determined contributed to the crash. Here's the live ranking for Long Beach so far this year.

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Which districts see the most collisions?

Every collision, matched to its City Council district. Pick a year — the current year is still partial, so a completed past year gives a fairer comparison.

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Is it getting better or worse?

Total Long Beach collisions reported each year since 2022 — pulled live from California's crash reporting system.

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Click any bar for exact figures.

Take the most recent one to two years with real caution: local police departments (including LBPD) report into the state's system on a rolling basis, so recent months are still being filled in and will rise as more reports are processed. Only 2022–2023 should be considered close to final. This is why we're not projecting a year-end estimate for the current year the way we do on our Public Safety page.

Where are collisions happening?

Every collision, mapped to its reported location. Choose a year, month, and day, filter by severity, who was involved, or Council District, search your address or a landmark, or click any marker for details.

Property Damage Only Injury Fatal

Markers are grouped into clusters at citywide zoom — zoom in or click a cluster to see individual collisions. The year filter goes back to 2022, the earliest year CCRS has published. The Day filter unlocks once a specific month is chosen. "Who Was Involved" flags a collision as Pedestrian or Bicyclist if CHP recorded that party type, regardless of severity; vulnerable road users like pedestrians and bicyclists carry far less protection than someone inside a vehicle. Locations are geocoded by CHP from the officer's report and may be approximate. Address search uses OpenStreetMap's Nominatim geocoder.

Where this data comes from

Every number on this page is pulled live, in your browser, from the State of California's own open data portal — not typed in by us.

Figures come from the California Highway Patrol's Crash Reporting System (CCRS), which replaced the older SWITRS system in January 2025 and compiles reports from every law enforcement agency in the state, including LBPD. We filter every query to collisions with a City Name of "Long Beach." A collision is classified Fatal if it reported at least one death, Injury if it reported at least one injury but no deaths, and Property-Damage-Only otherwise. The map's "Who Was Involved" filter comes from the Parties table, joined to Long Beach's collisions by collision ID, and flags pedestrians and bicyclists specifically. The "By Council District" breakdown and map filter match each collision's coordinates against the City's official nine-district boundary layer directly in your browser; collisions right at a district line are matched to whichever district contains that exact point. Year-over-year comparisons use the same date range in each year, anchored to the most recent date actually present in this year's data rather than today's calendar date — because, as noted above, the newest reports are still being filed. Recent months and the last one to two years should be read as an early, partial signal rather than a finished total; 2022–2023 are the most complete years available. Figures reflect reports filed with CHP, which can differ from a department's own internal counts.