The real reason for 0 traffic deaths in Hoboken is the city's tiny size and congestion. There are very few places here where cars can achieve sufficient speed f

The real reason for 0 traffic deaths in Hoboken is the city's tiny size and congestion. There are very few places here where cars can achieve sufficient speed for an accident to be fatal. Non-fatal accidents are very common here though, especially over the past year or two. Living on a busy downtown Hoboken street, I see car collisions at least every few weeks, and that's just on one intersection! The largest problem is the stop sign arrangement: Hoboken is primarily one-way streets, and relies on stop signs instead of traffic lights at intersections, with most of these stop signs just in one direction rather than all-way stops. Out-of-town drivers very frequently assume perpendicular oncoming traffic also has a stop sign, when it does not. So they end up in t-bone accidents frequently. This stop sign arrangement is also extremely hazardous as a pedestrian: drivers at intersections tend to only look in the direction of oncoming traffic, ignoring the pedestrians that may be crossing from the other direction. Add bicyclists who are legally able to ride on sidewalks, and a general lack of traffic safety enforcement, and you get a really hazardous and stressful situation for pedestrians and drivers alike. Personally I never encountered these problems living in equally-dense Brooklyn neighborhoods, because NYC uses traffic lights much more extensively and intelligently. Also the "daylighting" mentioned in the article is complete fiction. Delivery trucks park on top of the flexible bollards as soon as they go up, and completely block drivers' vision at intersections. My sense is these articles are a PR campaign meant to bolster the future political ambitions of a specific local elected official.