A woman remains in the hospital after she was walking in a crosswalk on Sutterville Road earlier this week. Now the city of Sacramento is considering declaring a state of emergency to fund resources to continue to try to stop pedestrian and cyclist deaths in the city.

The proposal comes during Pedestrian Safety Month in California. The message is to remind drivers to slow down and be alert.

A 48-year-old pedestrian died in the hospital as Sacramento City Council prepared to consider declaring a state of emergency over a road safety crisis that has now killed at least 21 people this year.

A Sacramento city leader is vowing action in response to a growing number of pedestrian and bicycle collisions involving be vehicles.

Sacramento paid the family an $11 million settlement, but it has not installed new safety infrastructure in the more than six years since the crash. It has approved a plan to make safety improvements to Freeport, however, Maple said, “for the Freeport project alone, we’re looking at 10 years out before we have the funding to actually do that.”

Following another crash that hurt a pedestrian on city streets Thursday night, Sacramento Vice Mayor Caity Maple is calling for greater action to address traffic.