Addison, Texas Belt Line Road and Midway Road - 263
Plano, Texas Park Road and Preston Road - 249
Schaumburg, Illinois Golf Road and Roselle Road – 244
Beverly Hills, California Wilshire Boulevard & Santa Monica Boulevard – 242
Dallas, Texas Belt Line Road and Preston Road – 241
Huntington Beach, California Adams Avenue and Brookhurst Street – 232
Sacramento, California Fair Oaks Boulevard and Watt Avenue – 212
Clearwater, Florida Sunset Point Road and U.S. 19 – 211
Las Vegas, Nevada Rainbow Boulevard and Sahara Avenue – 207
Chesterfield, Michigan Gratiot Avenue and 23 Mile Road – 204
Actually, their rank is by number of crashes, not rate, so it’s misleading. That is, it doesn’t take into considertion traffic volume. Intersections with the most traffic will probably have the most crashes, but it’s still interesting. I have been to 2, 3, 4, 7 and 8.
I regularly drive through the number one intersection - Beltline and Midway. Not only is the visibility bad, but the light sequence is terrible, and commuters have a really bad habit of trying to beat the light.
Most of the accidents I see there, however, are of the fender bender variety.
Now, Beltline and Preston, number five on the list is much, much worse. Twice I’ve seen Careflight on the scene to airlift accident victims to the hospital, and I’ve probably seen ambulances going to, leaving, or still at the scene around five times or more. It’s a scary place.
I used to live right off of Sunset Point Rd, just down from intersection #8.
Route 19 is pretty dangerous driving all throughout Pinellas county. It’s a six lane highway on which you may travel 55 mph, but must deal with stoplights every 1/2 mile or so. Of course, most of us drove at least 65 when we could, so when you have other four and six lane roads intersecting all over the place… well, it’s not hard to imagine the danger. I saw a ton of accidents every month.
How interesting that the OP, State Farm, and the subsequent posters take “dangerous” to refer to the number of vehicle/vehicle crashes. We certainly do live in a car-centered society.
Can we also discuss human/vehicle crashes?
Last year the NYT reported that the most pedestrian fatalities in NYC occurred at the 34th Street/Sixth Avenue/Broadway intersection (aka Herald Square).
As someone who grew up (and learned to drive) in a small Colorado skiing town frequented by lots of Texas and California residents, I didn’t need State Farm to tell me that.
I can attest to the fact that this should have been higher on the list. I live in this little burg and the traffic on 23 Mile between Gratiot Avenue and I-94, a distance of about a mile, is the worst I have ever seen. A alot of it has to do with the fact that in the past ten years, the population in this town has gone from approx 8,000 in 1990 to an estimated 28-30,000 in 2000. It was listed in the nationwide top ten for population growth this decade.
Shadowfox
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“Study Criteria and Definitions
As the nation’s largest insurer of automobiles, State Farm has a very
large data bank of crash information. The “Most Dangerous” lists were
determined based on 1998 claim reports that specified the intersection
where crashes occurred most often in the U.S.”
Hmmm…does that mean these stats were only gotten from State Farm claim reports? What about all the other crashes in the Nation that didn’t involve an auto insured by State Farm? I sense a flaw in this study.
I think State Farm probably figured that into their calculations. Either they insure enough people over a large enough area (likely if they are the largest auto insurer) or they did research outside their own customer base. That would also make sense since that information would be valuable to their figuring of rates, etc.
Cool! That’s damn close to where I live (when I’m not at college). The number of lanes at that intersection was recently doubled so I don’t think It’ll be on the list next time around.
I am awfully suprised St. Louis isn’t on that list. It seems that a vast majority of people here are unaware of the rules of the road.