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Phoenix's Deadliest Intersections

We read Arizona's crash record the way we read a case. We pulled the state and federal data and computed the lethality ourselves: which behaviors, which hours, and which corners actually turn a crash into a death.

1,228

people killed on Arizona roads in a single year.

3.36 killed every day · one life lost every 7 hours, 9 minutes

What we found

The findings

ADOT 2024
1,228

people killed on Arizona roads in 2024. That is 3.36 a day, one life lost every 7 hours and 9 minutes.

Computed
2.32x

more deadly per crash to run a red light than to drive too fast for conditions. Speeding causes far more crashes. The red light kills more often per crash.

Computed
7.8x

A crash at midnight is nearly 8 times more likely to kill than the same crash at 4 PM. When you drive changes whether you live.

Computed
3.2x

A left-turn crash is 3.2 times more likely to be fatal than a rear-end. The turn across traffic is the signature intersection crash, and it kills.

MAG 2018 to 2022
6 in 10

injury crashes in metro Phoenix happen at an intersection, and about 4 in 10 traffic deaths happen there too.

Computed
$32.4M

leaves Maricopa County every day to crashes. The county’s crashes cost $11.8 billion in 2024, about 56.6% of Arizona’s entire crash bill.

We didn't design a finding. We struck it from the data. ADOT publishes the crash counts. We computed the kill rates nobody else publishes from them, checked the math against ADOT's own totals, and flagged anything thin. We don't guess. We measure.

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