{"id":459283,"date":"2026-10-07T17:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/459283\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T17:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T17:30:09","slug":"most-dangerous-dallas-plano-intersections-according-to-txdot-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/459283\/","title":{"rendered":"Most dangerous Dallas, Plano intersections, according to TxDOT data"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Texas motorists know how hazardous navigating the region\u2019s roadways during on and off-peak hours can be.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of accidents occur daily throughout the 16-county North Texas region, according to the Texas Department of Transportation. However, some intersections may be more unsafe than others.<\/p>\n

A Corpus Christi-based personal injury law firm released a Sept. 30 report<\/a> analyzing 11 cities and their most dangerous intersections from January to August 2026, two of which are in North Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what to know about Dallas and Plano\u2019s three worst intersections.<\/p>\n

Dallas had the highest crash severity rate of all the cities analyzed at 3.7%. The crash severity rate refers to collisions resulting in serious injury or death.<\/p>\n

Friday was the peak day for collisions in every city except Dallas, whose peak day was Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to the report, the most dangerous intersections in Dallas are Interstate 35E and State Highway 183 with 70 crashes; Interstate 35E and Spur 366 with 69 crashes; and Interstate 635 and Skillman Street with 61 crashes.<\/p>\n

According to the report, Plano had the second-lowest crash severity rate at 1.5%.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The most common contributing factor for collisions in both Dallas and Plano was failure to control speed, and peak time for accidents was 5 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Plano, the most dangerous intersections are Legacy Drive and North Dallas Parkway with 23 crashes; Legacy Drive and State Highway 289 with 21 crashes; and Coit Road and West Park Boulevard with 20 crashes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Texas motorists know how hazardous navigating the region\u2019s roadways during on and off-peak hours can be. Hundreds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[102,100447,160,17921,27,29,28,88572,88338,87998,89138,88944,840],"class_list":["post-459283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-dallas","tag-news-transportation","tag-plano","tag-service","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tp-transportation","tag-tp-collin-county","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-dallas-county","tag-tp-plano","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}