from the state of Michigan<\/a>.<\/p>\nIn 2023, the most dangerous intersection was the N M-5\/Martin Parkway and N Pontiac Trail portion of the roundabout. The intersection recorded 53 crashes that year, with the whole roundabout seeing at least 141 crashes.<\/p>\n
The Oakland County intersection with the second-most crashes in 2024 was Dixie Highway and White Lake Road in Independence Township at 43 crashes. <\/p>\n
It was followed by Orchard Lake Road and W 14 Mile Road in West Bloomfield Township at 41 crashes.<\/p>\n
In all, there were 11,633 intersection crashes in Oakland County in 2024, up 3.51% from 11,238 in 2023.<\/p>\n
Here are the top 10 most crash-prone intersections in Oakland County in 2024. The M-5\/Martin Parkway and Pontiac Trail roundabout appears multiple times in the rankings because crashes are counted separately for each intersection within it.<\/p>\n
1. S M-5\/Martin Parkway and N Pontiac Trail (Commerce Township): 45 crashes<\/p>\n
2. Dixie Highway and White Lake Road (Independence Township): 43 crashes<\/p>\n
3. Orchard Lake Road and W 14 Mile Road (West Bloomfield Township): 41 crashes<\/p>\n
4. Martin Parkway and N Pontiac Trail (Commerce Township): 40 crashes<\/p>\n
5. (tie) N M-5\/Martin Parkway and N Pontiac Trail (Commerce Township): 36 crashes<\/p>\n
5. (tie) Drahner Road and Lapeer Road (Oxford Township): 36 crashes<\/p>\n
7. (tie) Orchard Lake Road and W 12 Mile Road (Farmington Hills): 35 crashes<\/p>\n
7. (tie) Highland Road and Teggerdine Road (White Lake Township): 35 crashes<\/p>\n
9. Franklin Road and W Square Lake Road (Bloomfield Township): 34 crashes<\/p>\n
10. W Huron Street and W Woodward Avenue (Pontiac): 33 crashes<\/p>\n
The map below shows where each of the intersections are in the county.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One roundabout accounted for three of the top 10 most dangerous intersections in Oakland County in 2024. That…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-180061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-oakland","9":"tag-oakland-headlines","10":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}