>From today's news - 10 places to stay away from in your Spitfire.
Reuters
WASHINGTON (June 27) - The nation's most-dangerous traffic intersection is
north of Miami in Pembroke Pines, Florida, the No. 1 U.S. car insurer
reported on Wednesday.
State Farm released its top 10 ''Most Dangerous'' intersection list, which
analyzed claims data in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
Philadelphia, Phoenix and Tulsa, Oklahoma, each had two intersections on the
list, while Frisco, Texas, near Dallas, Metairie, Louisiana, near New
Orleans, and Sacramento, California, each had one.
The insurer compiled the list based on crashes that resulted in claims by its
policy-holders in 1999 and 2000.
State Farm estimated there were 357 crashes over the two-year period at the
Flamingo Road and Pines Boulevard intersection.
The main problem there, according to State Farm safety engineer John
Nepomuceno, was traffic volume. He estimated the intersection handles roughly
200,000 cars per day.
Nepomuceno said intersections on the top 10 list all met appropriate design
standards and were regulated by traffic lights. He said traffic volume and
driver error were two important factors in crashes.
Roosevelt Boulevard intersections at Red Lion Road and Grant Avenue in
Philadelphia ranked second and third, while Seventh Street and Bell Road in
Phoenix was fourth.
Memorial Drive intersections with 51st and 71st streets in Tulsa ranked fifth
and sixth, while 19th Avenue and Northern Avenue in Phoenix was seventh.
State Highway 121 and Preston Road in Frisco, Texas, was eighth, Clearview
Parkway and Veterans Memorial Boulevard in Metairie, Louisiana, was ninth,
and Fair Oaks Boulevard and Howe Avenue in Sacramento was 10th.
Tom Burke
80 Spit
/// spitfires@autox.team.net mailing list
/// To unsubscribe send a plain text message to majordomo@autox.team.net
/// with nothing in it but
///
/// unsubscribe spitfires
///
|