New England's Densest City Celebrates 4 Years with No Traffic Deaths

Somerville has gone 4 years without a traffic death. Here’s how New England’s densest city did it. - The Boston Globe

Serious crashes within city limits saw a 50 percent drop in 2025. Officials say that's not by accident.

New England's densest city celebrates 4 years with no traffic deaths

New England's densest city celebrates 4 years with no traffic deaths Christine McLaren Sun, 08/16/2026 - 08:00 Primary Image Somerville, Massachusetts has gone four years without a single traffic fatality. The Boston Globe reports that the city — a densely populated inner-tier urban suburb of Boston — leveraged everything from speed humps to flower beds as tools to achieve "results almost unheard of in any urban area, much less the most densely…