MOST DANGEROUS INTERSECTION IN THE QUAD CITIES DETERMINED
The most dangerous intersection on the Illinois side of the Quad Cities, racking up 29 crashes in 2007 alone, is Kennedy Drive and Avenue of the Cities in East Moline. The Bi-State Regional Commission performed a study using data from 2007 and highlighted 23 accident-prone intersections in the Quad Cities. The Commission considered intersections with more than seven accidents, sevrity of those crashes involveing property damage, injury and fatality, and a ratio of crashes per 1 million vehicles.
Intersections studied on the Illinois side of the Quad Cities accounted for 258 crashes and 119 injuries. Of the intersections considered in Illinois, three of them occurred on John Deere Road -at 16th Street, 38th Street and 41st Street, respectively. Moline police credit congestion for the high accident rate and note that the road wasn't built to accommodate that many cars.
The Illinois and Iowa Departments of Transportation plan to make 30 million dollars worth of improvments to the roads in the Quad Cities to help ease congestion and reduce accidents, but are also considering a variety of less costly ways to reduce the accident rate, including the installation of red light cameras. Other smaller changes being considered to improve safety and aware driver awareness include adding more street signs and rumble strips, re-striping of the roads, creating a protected left turn and updating traffic signals.
