Denver traffic-death toll reached 28 by mid-June, councilmember says
Councilmember Kevin Flynn said June 15 that Denver had recorded 28 traffic deaths in 2026, up from 25 two weeks earlier, as the city’s public Vision Zero statistics reflected a fast-changing count.
Denver had recorded 28 traffic deaths in 2026 as of June 15, Councilmember Kevin Flynn said during council announcements Monday, warning that the pace could jeopardize one of the city’s near-term safety benchmarks.
Flynn said the total had risen from 25 two weeks earlier to 28 and called the trend “worrying.” He also pointed to Denver’s 2025 total of 93 traffic deaths and said he was concerned the city would not meet what he described as a commitment to cut fatalities by 50% this year.
Denver’s public Vision Zero statistics page appeared to be changing around the same period. Material reviewed for this story showed 27 traffic deaths in one live extract and 28 in a later official search snippet from the same city page. The accessible public record reviewed for this story did not include a dated snapshot showing exactly when the count changed.
The city’s broader published goal is to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries, not just reduce them in a single year. Denver’s Vision Zero program page says the goal is zero traffic fatalities and serious bodily injuries, and city Vision Zero action-plan materials say the target year is 2030.
What the public record reviewed for this story does not show is how this year’s pace compares with the same point in 2025. The city statistics page listed the full-year 2025 death toll, but it did not provide a mid-June 2025 year-to-date count for a direct comparison.
City materials show Denver is continuing previously announced safety efforts. The Vision Zero page says the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure is pursuing lower speed limits and street-design changes, while the city’s SPEED program page says Denver is expanding automated speed-camera enforcement in 2026.
But no public city statement reviewed for this story said Denver was changing enforcement, redesign priorities or other countermeasures specifically because of the increase from 25 to 28 deaths. DOTI’s public news and outreach page did not, in the material reviewed for this story, include a June statement directly addressing the latest increase.
For now, the clearest public takeaway is that Denver’s 2026 traffic-death count was still rising in mid-June, even as the city’s broader Vision Zero strategy remained unchanged in the public materials reviewed for this story.