The Sacramento City Council may declare a state of emergency at its Tuesday meeting over a road safety crisis that has left at least 20 people dead in traffic collisions so far this year.

The emergency declaration would kick off a “public education” campaign about road safety for drivers and pedestrians and would jumpstart the implementation of “quick-build” safety projects.

The City of Sacramento submitted a proposal Monday to declare a state of emergency over pedestrian safety and traffic deaths.The initiative comes after the third fatal vehicle versus pedestrian accident this month.

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.”

The City of Sacramento is looking to take a stance against the amount of pedestrian collisions in the city by proposing a state of emergency.