It’s been a deadly year on Calgary’s streets.

On the evening of Nov. 21, a woman in her 30s was crossing Macleod Trail outside of a marked crosswalk when a driver struck her while going through a green light. The pedestrian was transported to hospital with life-threatening injuries and died five days later.

That marked Calgary’s 14th pedestrian fatality this year.

It’s the highest number of pedestrian deaths on Calgary Police Service records, which date back to 1996. According to police, it’s a death toll only seen once before, in 2005.

A heat map showing fatal pedestrian collisions in Calgary between 2016 and 2025. (City of Calgary)

“These are needless deaths that do not have to happen,” said Dr. Louis Hugo Francescutti, an emergency physician and professor at the University of

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