Hingham Rotary, Cushing/Main Left Off State’s List of Worst Intersections

Although Hingham is without traffic lights at some of the town’s busiest intersections, their streets remain safer than most in Massachusetts.

For years, residents have argued that Hingham needs to eliminate the rotary on route 3A and also install traffic lights at the Cushing and Main Street intersection, but neither of these intersections are as dangerous as others in the state.

The State Department of Transportation just released a list of the state’s worst intersections and not one of them was in Hingham.

According to the list, which was made up from data collected by the DOT in 2010 with help from the Registry of Motor Vehicles, Lowell’s intersections are the worst in the state, taking two of the first three spots and five in the top 30.

The second-highest crash location was Randolph Avenue and Chickatawbut Road in nearby Milton.

Weymouth squeaks into the top 10 with Main Street and Middle Street at number 10, with a total of 121 accidents and 21 featuring injuries, according to data collected by the DOT in 2010 with help from the Registry of Motor Vehicles.

Below are the other Weymouth intersections on the list:

17. Washington and Main – 90 crashes, 20 with injury

29. Washington and Middle – 87 crashes, 18 with injury

46. Main and Pond – 79 crashes, 17 with injury

56. Main and Park – 75 crashes, 16 with injury

115. Main and Winter – 55 crashes, 15 with injury

138. Washington and Broad – 49 crashes, 15 with injury

156. Washington and Commercial – 63 crashes, 10 with injury

169. Union and Pleasant – 65 crashes, 9 with injury

By comparison, number one on the list – VFW Highway and Varnum Avenue in Lowell – saw 161 crashes in 2010, 42 with injuries.

The data used for the list only includes accidents entered into the statewide crash system, DOT Administrator Frank DePaola wrote in an introduction to the September 2012 report.

So we ask you, which intersection in Hingham do you think is the worst??