The Stats Behind SLP's Most Dangerous Intersection

Last week, we reported on MnDOT's list of the state's —a list that had the intersection of Highway 7 and Aquila Avenue/Blake Road in St. Louis Park at 10th.

The list was based on weighted rankings of various types of crashes over the last three years. Simple property damage crashes were worth one point; at the other end of the spectrum were fatal crashes, weighted at 70 points.

I followed up with MnDOT, and they supplied the stats on the Highway 7/Aquila Avenue intersection from 2008-2010. Over that time, the intersection had:

• 0 fatal crashes
• 0 severe injury crashes
• 0 moderate injury crashes
• 35 minor injury crashes
• 44 property damage crashes

Under MnDOT's ranking system, the 35 minor injury crashes (worth 7.67 points each) totaled 268.45 points, while the 44 property damage crashes tacked on another 44 points, for a total of 312.45.

By comparison, the state's most dangerous intersection according to MnDOT—Minnesota Highway 15 and Minnesota Highway 23/2nd Street South in St. Cloud—tallied more than 561 points, making it almost twice as dangerous by these standards. The intersection had one fatal crash in the last three years, as well as a startling 100 property damage crashes. Perhaps not surprisingly, the intersection's total of 150 crashes was tops among the 20 on the list.

For a complete look at all the MnDOT crash statistics, see the attached PDF above.