The D.C. Council has approved a fivefold increase in the fine for drivers who fail to yield to pedestrians, bringing the $50 penalty for such infractions to $250 and three license points in an effort to curb the city’s escalating number of pedestrian deaths.

The original proposal, to raise the fine to $500, which was put forward earlier in the summer, would have made it one of the costliest citations in the nation for such an offense.