A 48-year-old pedestrian died in the hospital as Sacramento City Council prepared to consider declaring a state of emergency over a road safety crisis that has now killed at least 21 people this year.

The proposal comes during Pedestrian Safety Month in California. The message is to remind drivers to slow down and be alert.

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.”

A Sacramento city leader is vowing action in response to a growing number of pedestrian and bicycle collisions involving be vehicles.

Following another crash that hurt a pedestrian on city streets Thursday night, Sacramento Vice Mayor Caity Maple is calling for greater action to address traffic.