Using this crash data and daily traffic counts, the newspaper then ranked more than 15,000 intersections and expressway interchanges to find the city's most dangerous place to drive. In the last six years, motorists have crashed 5,233 times on the boulevard. Those wrecks injured more than 6,000 people and killed at least 60. Only Broad Street rivals the roadway for sheer volume of crashes. But, the boulevard is bloodier.
More people die in wrecks there than on any other highway or street in the city.
Drivers crash more often on the Roosevelt Boulevard, but the runners-up are nearly as dangerous. The analysis ranks it fourth in crashes among city highways. In the last six years, these two sites have produced 583 crashes. It could be worse, but experts say the expressway's typically slow traffic cuts down on serious crashes. Most people don't expect a simple ride through the city's pastoral Fairmount Park to turn into Hell on Wheels.