{"id":128832,"date":"2015-12-01T16:15:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T22:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/?p=128832"},"modified":"2017-04-17T09:33:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T14:33:17","slug":"bismarcks-top-5-intersections-with-the-most-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/128832\/bismarcks-top-5-intersections-with-the-most-crashes","title":{"rendered":"Bismarck&#8217;s Top 5 Intersections With The Most Crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bismarck Tribune <a href=\"http:\/\/bismarcktribune.com\/gallery\/most-dangerous-intersections-in-bismarck\/collection_aa2e1861-2275-5380-ab6e-199b0fc01d00.html\" target=\"_blank\">has posted an article<\/a> listing the city&#8217;s &#8220;most dangerous&#8221; intersections, ranking each by total crashes. Not surprisingly, State Street bisected three of the five intersections. On the other hand, Bismarck&#8217;s other major artery, Expressway, was absent from the Top 5 list.<\/p>\n<p>Bismarck-Mandan is noted as containing some of the state&#8217;s most treacherous intersections. A recent DOT study concluded that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/57209\/38-of-states-highest-accident-intersections-located-in-bismarck-mandan\">Bismarck-Mandan was home to 19 out of the top 50 intersections (38%) with the highest crash frequencies in North Dakota.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>State Street-Interchange Avenue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This busy intersection with common left turns across three lanes in each direction ranks fifth in local traffic crashes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rosser Avenue-12th Street<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This intersection, which can become blinded from heavy street parking stemming from St. Alexius, is a common crossing point for\u00a0north-south traffic across Rosser.<\/p>\n<p><strong>State Street-Divide Avenue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This oddly angled,\u00a0heavy volume intersection ranks third in local crashes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>State Street-Century Avenue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the busiest &#8211; and largest\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0local intersections, this 20-lane\u00a0junction places second in traffic crashes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>State Street-Interstate Avenue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Again, one of the largest intersections in terms of combined lanes, this busy intersection near I-94 and Gateway Fashion Mall tops the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bismarck Tribune has posted an article listing the city&#8217;s &#8220;most dangerous&#8221; intersections, ranking each by total crashes. Not surprisingly, State Street bisected three of the five intersections. On the other hand, Bismarck&#8217;s other major artery, Expressway, was absent from the Top 5 list. Bismarck-Mandan is noted as containing some of the state&#8217;s most treacherous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[518,2410,216,364],"tags":[328,1063,1064,853],"class_list":["post-128832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bismarck-news","category-crime-news","category-featured","category-home-page","tag-crime","tag-home","tag-ticker","tag-traffic"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}