The Tracy Police Department is making concerted efforts to bring awareness throughout October for National Pedestrian Safety Month, hoping to curb dangerous driving behavior that puts pedestrians at risk, including violations like speeding, making illegal turns, failing to yield, or running stop signs and signals.

"Far too often, we have collisions with vehicles and pedestrians, and the pedestrians always come out on the worst end of that, because they just can't defend themselves against a vehicle that's speeding that weighs thousands of pounds," Tracy Police Sergeant Michael Richards said.

Richards said they've had several incidents in the last few years where pedestrians were hit by cars.

"And unfortunately lost their lives because of those collisions," Richards said. "So, we want to

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