Area roads attract accidents
The London Police Services annual report on the years ‘high collision intersections' was released in early January and saw mostly bad, with a little-bit of good, news for those in Fanshawe's immediate neighbourhood.
The 2007 report, which according to Sgt. Tom O'Brien is a compilation of the years' statistics to create a list of the London intersections that are more prone to car collisions.
“It serves no other purpose than to really alert the public,” explained O'Brien. “There are certain intersections within our city that when you encounter them it might benefit you to realize that it's where the majority of our collisions take place.”
The intersection list includes, perhaps not surprisingly for drivers in the area, Dundas St. and Highbury Ave.; Oxford St. and Highbury Ave.; Oxford St. and Adelaide St.; as well as Hamilton Rd. and Highbury Ave.
But O'Brien stressed that being on the list doesn't mean they're the most dangerous intersections, that some intersections in the outlying areas of the city are more dangerous because there's a lower density of traffic, higher speeds and an increase in commercial trucking traffic.
However in Fanshawe's vicinity the problem isn't the commercial trucking, it's that the school borders two of the city's busiest roads, which leads to an increase of traffic flow.
“What we're seeing traditionally is that you've got the heavier thoroughfares,” O'Brien continued. “Streets like Oxford St., Highbury Ave., Wellington St. and Wonderland Rd. are the primary roads that are on that list, and Fanshawe happens to be out along the two big ones.
“If you look at it, you've got four or five lanes of traffic on Oxford right out front the college, and they recognize that it's not a normal street. The college has put up fences and hopefully it encourages people to cross the roads there at the intersections.”
The news isn't entirely bad however, the Highbury Ave. and Huron St. intersection has toppled off the top ten list, and none of the city's six traffic fatalities occurred at any of the top 10 intersections.
The 2007 report, which according to Sgt. Tom O'Brien is a compilation of the years' statistics to create a list of the London intersections that are more prone to car collisions.
“It serves no other purpose than to really alert the public,” explained O'Brien. “There are certain intersections within our city that when you encounter them it might benefit you to realize that it's where the majority of our collisions take place.”
The intersection list includes, perhaps not surprisingly for drivers in the area, Dundas St. and Highbury Ave.; Oxford St. and Highbury Ave.; Oxford St. and Adelaide St.; as well as Hamilton Rd. and Highbury Ave.
But O'Brien stressed that being on the list doesn't mean they're the most dangerous intersections, that some intersections in the outlying areas of the city are more dangerous because there's a lower density of traffic, higher speeds and an increase in commercial trucking traffic.
However in Fanshawe's vicinity the problem isn't the commercial trucking, it's that the school borders two of the city's busiest roads, which leads to an increase of traffic flow.
“What we're seeing traditionally is that you've got the heavier thoroughfares,” O'Brien continued. “Streets like Oxford St., Highbury Ave., Wellington St. and Wonderland Rd. are the primary roads that are on that list, and Fanshawe happens to be out along the two big ones.
“If you look at it, you've got four or five lanes of traffic on Oxford right out front the college, and they recognize that it's not a normal street. The college has put up fences and hopefully it encourages people to cross the roads there at the intersections.”
The news isn't entirely bad however, the Highbury Ave. and Huron St. intersection has toppled off the top ten list, and none of the city's six traffic fatalities occurred at any of the top 10 intersections.
