San Jose officials to look over 2025 the zero vision plan as a beloved grandmother killed while crossing street

San Jose, California (KGO) – San Jose was one of the first to launch the “Vision Zero” effort to reduce traffic deaths and severe wounds. A family shares how their recent loss will create safer changes.

Antionnette Taylor shows me the intersection in which her grandmother was killed while crossing the street. It happened last month outside Kimball and Sherlock Drive in San Jose.

“No one was with her when she died, in such a horrible way,” Taylor said.

86 -year -old Florence Taylor was hit around 6:30 on her way to work as a caretaker.

Her daughter Angela Taylor-Payne is still in shock.

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“Crazy for me he left,” Taylor-Payne said.

San Jose police said the driver remained on the spot and cooperated.

The death of Florence Taylor marked the third death of the 2025 traffic of the city.

“He didn’t have shoes -he hit him so hard that he beat his shoes on his feet,” Taylor -Payne said.

After it happened, a neighbor put these signs, urging the drivers to slow down. The Taylor family would like to see more signs and speed unevenness.

On Tuesday, the San Jose Municipal Council will receive an update of the Zero Vision Zero 2025 action plan. The plan sets an objective of reducing the death and wounds of 30% by 2030.

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In the presentation, he says at national level, traffic deaths have been constantly increasing by 25% over the last 10 years. In San Jose, deaths have grown at a slower rate of around 17% in the last 10 years. The city is now working on plans to install dozens of speed rooms, plus new red light rooms, hoping it will make the streets safer.

“Now I understand how it feels when you lose your mother, there is nothing like half of you just from you, just leave your body,” said Taylor-Payne.

Florence Taylor, is described as a South Belle, who was kind and liked to cook for those around her.

The family started an GoFundme To help with her unexpected funeral expenses.

“The last time she breathed, the last time she went, the last time that everything was here. And it should not have been,” Taylor-Payne said.

Florence, known as Mamo for her grandchildren, will be rested at the end of this week.