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By Bridgette Outten, Staff Writer Updated 6:17 PM Wednesday, November 18, 2009

SPRINGFIELD — Rankings of 2009’s top 10 local traffic urban and rural “hot spots” were recently released by the Clark County-Springfield Transportation Coordinating Committee.

Belmont Road at Lagonda Avenue-Mitchell Boulevard and Ohio 235 at U.S. Route 40 in the county are the most dangerous intersections for Springfield and the county, respectively.

The rankings take into frequency, type and severity of crashes at each location.

According to the TCC, the locations were examined using 2006-2008 data from the Ohio Department of Transportation and the Ohio Department of Public Safety.

Sheriff Gene Kelly said many of the most dangerous locations in the county are already being addressed.

“We’ve gone after additional dollars through the Ohio Department of Transportation for traffic enforcement for additional deputies to put on the street,” Kelly said.

He explained that deputies watch out for impaired drivers, aggressive drivers, speeders or “any other factors that can contribute to a crash,” he said.

The TCC’s full report is available at http://www.clarktcc.com/crashes.htm.

Contact this reporter at (937) 328-0374 or boutten@coxohio.com.

2009 Local Safety Hot Spots

Top 10 Urban

Belmont Road at Lagonda Avenue/Mitchell Boulevard

Belmont Road at Main Street

Limestone Street at John Street

Limestone Street at McCreight Avenue

Burnett Road at Main Street

Burnett Road at High Street

Spring Street at High Street

Bechtle Avenue at Ohio 41/First Street

Hillcrest Avenue at Ohio 41

Limestone Street at Leffel Lane

Top 10 Rural

Ohio 235 at US Route 40

Ohio 235 at Gerlaugh Road

Ohio 72 at Villa Road/Eagle City Road

Spangler Road at Lower Valley Pike

Union Road at Spangler Road

Ballantine Pike at Ohio 41/Lawrenceville Road

Bird Road at U.S. Route 40

Ohio 41 at Ridge Road/Titus Road

Lake Road at Gerlaugh Road

Tuttle Road at US Route 40

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Try sliding through 235 and 40 when that intersection is a sheet of ice.

Donna
7:06 PM, 11/19/2009

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Most is not all of those intersections involve traffic lights. Most of the problems is people running the lights, and pulling out in front of others. There is just no patience when driving anymore. Before we start asking for more law enforcement officers, how about seeing the ones we already have sitting near these intersections at high traffic times? Aside from the township office near the Mall and an occasional OSP patrol car, I have yet to see any county officers.

Redhead 88 Fan
12:05 PM, 11/19/2009

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No your actually wrong there mechengr 9 its because of the driver following to close to your ***. Its called assured clear distance,people are leaving a enought room to stop in front of the car,take for instance when I was stopped at the Wal-Mart stop sign on Bechtle Ave,a young girl was coming up a high rate of speed and she didn't stop soon enough and rear ended me.

Travis Aker
11:38 AM, 11/19/2009

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This list is made just to justify someone's job. 5 of the intersections are in Bethel Twp, yet 571 and 40 is not listed. We've had more serious crashes there then at most of those listed. And Lower Valley and Union is worse then Union and Spangler. We rarely have crashes at the latter, but have had fatals at LV and Union.

Karpis
11:23 AM, 11/19/2009

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Hey Fred,
Read carefully and slowly, I never said they caused accidents, they cause the numbers to rise. Obviously humans cause the accidents, the red light camera is the catalyst for the increase.

mechengr9
10:49 AM, 11/19/2009

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