SAN FRANCISCO – Pedestrian safety advocates in San Francisco hung signs Friday reminding people of those who dead on the city streets.

There are few neighborhoods in this city that have not been affected by a fatal accident. Now, pedestrian advocates say they want to mark those locations and make sure the city pays attention to what they call a public health crisis.

For 10 years, San Francisco has experienced a vision for zero fatal accidents on the roadand at that time Walk around San Francisco According to him, 317 people died in the streets of the city. Now the pedestrian advocacy group is hanging signs all over the city. “It’s a sign to remind everyone that someone died there,” said Jodie Medeiros of Walk SF.

According to the organizers, no corner of the city was spared. “When I looked at the map, I was surprised to see how many there were in District 2, in the Marina or on the West Side,” Medeiros said. “You know, Richmond, Sunset, Bayview.”

Dr. Christian Rose is an emergency physician. He worked at Zuckerberg General Hospital in San Francisco and saw the damage car accidents can cause. “It’s hard to think about seeing enough injuries and accidents and deaths. I wouldn’t say that I’ve become desensitized to it or that anyone is desensitized to it, but that it just becomes a part of your lived experience,” said Dr. Rose. “Hope it could happen to you.”

While riding his bike around town seven years ago, Dr. Rose says this happened to him. He said he was riding his bike on Arguello Boulevard and a car turned left and right toward him. He remembers the headlights coming towards him. “But yeah, I ended up in the general emergency department in San Francisco with a broken hip,” Dr. Rose said. “I had a bleed in my thigh, needed a blood transfusion and emergency orthopedic surgery to insert a rod into my femur and screw it into my hip joint to be able to walk again.”

Dr. Rose is now on his feet and advocating for stricter security measures.

Organizers and survivors said the city was not adopting Vision Zero on the scale needed to succeed. “This is a public health outbreak and the city needs to do something to keep people safe,” Medeiros said.

Organizers also paint 317 pairs of shoes white to commemorate those who have died. The shoes will be on display at World Remembrance Day for road victims on Sunday, November 17 at City Hall.