Charlotte publishes transportation-safety plans, annual Vision Zero materials, and data resources intended to identify patterns and guide public investment. Those materials can supply useful context after a pedestrian collision, especially when a corridor, intersection, crossing, signal, or planned improvement is relevant. They are not a substitute for the event record.

Citywide safety data can identify patterns and public priorities, but it does not reconstruct an individual pedestrian collision or decide legal fault.

Understand what Charlotte Vision Zero materials are designed to do

The City of Charlotte’s Vision Zero program page describes a city strategy focused on eliminating traffic deaths and severe injuries. It publishes action-plan updates, annual reports, task-force materials, and resources concerning engineering, education, enforcement, data, and policy.

The program’s High Injury Network uses historical crash information to identify streets with concentrations of fatal and serious-injury events. That network is a planning and prioritization tool. Inclusion can identify a pattern worth examining; exclusion does not prove a location was safe, and inclusion does not establish why a particular collision occurred.

Use the annual report as a resource map

Charlotte’s FY 2025 Vision Zero annual report identifies published resources including the Vision Zero dashboard, Charlotte Street interactive crash data, the High Injury Network, and project information. When using any dashboard or map, record the access date, data period, geographic unit, severity definition, filters, and whether later corrections or updates may change the display.

  • Save the source URL, report or layer name, access date, visible filters, legend, data period, screenshot or export, and any published methodology
  • Distinguish a crash count, fatal-or-serious-injury measure, pedestrian weighting, corridor designation, project priority, and funding status
  • Do not add map totals from different years, boundaries, severity definitions, or datasets as if they measured the same thing
  • Label a city plan, recommendation, audit finding, funded project, completed construction, and observed event as different forms of information
  • Preserve both the version available near the collision date and the later version used during review when possible

Identify the road, agency, controls, and dates

A Charlotte mailing address does not by itself identify who controlled a roadway, signal, crosswalk, light, sidewalk, construction zone, or adjacent property. Record the exact road segment, intersection legs, jurisdictional boundary, road-maintenance responsibility, signal ownership, transit or railroad involvement, construction activity, and property access point before requesting or interpreting records.

  • Signal timing and phase records, pedestrian-signal operation, activation or detection, timing changes, malfunction reports, and maintenance history when available
  • Crosswalk, sign, pavement-marking, lighting, vegetation, sight-line, curb-ramp, island, lane, speed-limit, resurfacing, and work-order records
  • Project plans, public meeting materials, design drawings, construction dates, traffic-control plans, before-and-after conditions, and the agency responsible for each document
  • Published crash data and corridor studies tied to the same segment and a clearly defined period, without treating aggregate history as proof of this event
  • Later repairs or safety changes documented with dates rather than presented as the condition that existed at the collision time

Build the individual collision record separately

  • Pedestrian path, start point, lane position, signal indication, pace, clothing, visibility, medical condition when documented, and point of impact
  • Vehicle approach, lane, turn or through movement, speed evidence, braking, lighting, sight lines, driver attention, and point of impact
  • Original photographs and video, witness locations, 911 and dispatch records, police measurements and narrative, vehicle data, weather, and illumination
  • Condition and operation of crosswalk lines, stop lines, signs, pedestrian signals, traffic signals, beacons, islands, curb ramps, lighting, vegetation, and temporary controls
  • A synchronized timeline showing source, clock offset, uncertainty, later correction, and the difference between observation and interpretation

Apply traffic duties through the exact crossing

The related guide to North Carolina pedestrian right-of-way rules at crosswalks explains marked and unmarked crosswalks, pedestrian and traffic signals, midblock crossings, driveways, yielding, and due care. This page owns the Charlotte planning-data and roadway-record context rather than repeating those legal rules.

Rosensteel Fleishman Car Accident & Injury Lawyers provides information about discussing a Charlotte pedestrian-accident claim involving roadway data or street design. The individual movements, controls, conditions, records, duties, causation, and defenses require case-specific review.

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