New Data Shows Most Dangerous Intersection In Each State

INDIANAPOLIS, IN — As the temperatures drop and the roads get slicker around the holiday season, a Chicago attorney's office wants everyone to know which intersections to look out for while traveling. Rubens & Kress are releasing their findings of the most dangerous intersections in each state, after utilizing several sources, statistics and research. According to the business, date from the National Safety Council reports 2016 was the deadliest year on American roads in nearly a decade, with more than 40,200 Americans dying in motor vehicle accidents, and 4.6 million Americans injured.

Using crowd sourced data from Badintersections.com and nine years of data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Rubens & Kress found the most dangerous intersection in each state based on a state's automobile and pedestrian accident occurrences. Indiana's most dangerous intersection is at 38th Street and Guion Road in Indianapolis.

According to NHTSA’s report, in 2015, Texas had the most fatalities due to speeding with 3,516; the lowest number was Washington D.C., which had 23.

According to Rubens & Kress, those traveling near Philadelphia, PA need to know the most dangerous intersection in the country (and state) is in Bensalem, 20 miles northeast of Philadelphia at Knights Road and Streets Road.

If you're traveling out West, know that Wyoming is the most dangerous U.S. state for drivers, with 25.7 deaths per 100,000 people, as Rubens & Kress reports population density isn't the case here, but less safe roads, wild animals and less seat belt wearing is.

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The top five most populated cities—NYC, LA, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix—are also home to the most dangerous intersections in their respective states, Rubens & Kress reports, as the likeliness of a fatal traffic accident increases with more people on the road.

Recently, TIME Magazine used data spanning from 2003 to 2012 from a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) study on fatal traffic accidents to count the number of fatal accidents that occurred within approximately 150 feet of each other.

The cities with the lowest number of accidents are on the East Coast, including Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, where each state had less than 10 crashes in the main city.

See the country's most dangerous intersections and all the findings at chicagoworkcomp.com.

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