Traffic moves along near the Mason Street Bridge in Green Bay March 11, 2026. PC: Fox 11 Online
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — On Monday, the city of Green Bay asked area drivers where they feel the roads are unsafe along with how they’d suggest the city fix them.
It was part of the city’s larger “Teaming Up for Safe Streets” safety action plan.
City data says between 2021 and 2025 there were 4,071 crashes in Green Bay, with 2,875 of them considered severe. According to the data a crash is considered severe when it includes a fatality, a serious injury, a moderate injury, a pedestrian or bicyclist, or a severely damaged vehicle. Among them, there were 141 seriously injured people and 13 fatalities.
This map shows the crashes have been spread out all over the city.
Green Bay crash statistics were displayed at Monday’s “Teaming Up for Safe Streets” public information meeting, Nov. 9, 2026.
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John Campbell is the Director of Traffic Safety Engineering for Traffic Analysis & Design Inc., the project’s lead consultant. He says the public’s input is crucial.
“The crash data tells one part of the story, but people’s experiences on the roadway network, going to and from work, to and from school, help pick out things that we wouldn’t be able to pick up from looking at the crash data alone,” said Campbell.
Pete Reinhart went to the meeting as an example of how dangerous the city roads can be.
Earlier this year, Reinhart had just finished lunch when he tried to use a crosswalk on Webster Ave. near St. Vincent Hospital. He says he tried to cross when a white SUV stopped after he used a pedestrian signal.
“All of a sudden behind that white car comes this small red car, just whipped around it. Ran me down. I’ve never been run over in my life,” said Reinhart.
Reinhart suggested the city look into adding roundabouts downtown.
He added, “It works in De Pere. Makes you slow down and by the way, if you have a car accident, you’re sideswiped. No straight-ons, that kind of stuff.”
Pat Karlovitz says she hopes the city creates four way stops at busy intersections that currently only stop two ways.
“They should have everybody take their turn to go and then everybody will understand that when it’s their turn, they can go, but otherwise they shouldn’t try to sneak in front of someone else,” said Karlovitz.
The project is in a data collection phase. It’s expected to be finalized at the end of 2028. Its goal is to eliminate fatal and serious injury crashes by 2045.
An online survey to provide feedback is available through Nov. 23.
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