South Australia’s 10 most dangerous intersections revealed

The intersection of Marion and Sturt roads has changed it as essentially the most harmful within the state.

The junction in Adelaide’s south has seen 40 crashes inflicting folks to undergo severe or minor accidents previously 5 years.

The following worst was the intersection of Curtis and Peachy roads within the northern suburb of Munno Para, which recorded 38 casualty crashes between 2017 and 2021 in accordance with state authorities knowledge obtained by the RAA.

The Britannia roundabouts completed equal third with 36 casualty crashes, together with the intersection of Stebonheath and Womma roads within the northern suburbs.

The twin Britannia roundabouts solely recorded three casualty crashes final yr – knocking the massively remodelled thoroughfare from high of the earlier most harmful intersections checklist throughout 2016-20.

Adelaide’s northern suburbs has greater than its fair proportion of harmful intersections, accounting for seven of the highest 10 worst for casualty crashes, whereas the japanese suburbs has two and the south one.

The most typical sorts of crashes on the 10 worst intersections have been rear finish collisions (38%), adopted by proper flip collisions (30%) and proper angle (T-bone) collisions at 25%.

RAA Senior supervisor of Security and Infrastructure Charles Mountain stated fortunately not one of the crashes on the 10 worst intersections resulted in a fatality previously 5 years.

“Many severe accidents have been recorded, which might have catastrophic and life-long impression on victims, their households and buddies,’’ Mountain stated.

“We will see that site visitors volumes and the complexity of intersections contributed to the variety of casualty crashes occurring at these high ten websites.

Mountain stated the RAA is urging motorists to be vigilant each time they’re behind the wheel, notably when travelling by way of these intersections – even when they accomplish that every single day.

“Visitors can cease abruptly and lead to rear finish collisions, so RAA is reminding drivers to maintain a secure distance from the automobile in entrance of them to keep away from changing into a crash sufferer.’’

He stated nearly all of collisions leading to harm on the worst intersection of Marion and Sturt roads concerned automobiles travelling north and south.

“The Marion Highway approaches to the intersection account for 80 per cent of casualty crashes, with proper flip crashes very distinguished for each north and south certain site visitors,’’ Mountain stated.

“Infrastructure enhancements price $3 million have been final made at this intersection in 2015-16 and included highway widening and a right-hand lane flip extension.’’