EMY92 said:
I was in Utah for a driving school several weeks ago. After we finished the track sessions, we left the facility in a convoy heading for the trails. The instructors warned us about the most dangerous intersection in Utah at the intersection just down the road from the Utah Motorsports Complex.
I was expecting a diverging diamond, but no, it was an intersection identical to the one at Texas and Harvey.
Has anyone else noticed that the posters who generally are known to be traffic safety experts or collision reconstruction experts have posted only positive things or not posted at all about the "new" divergent diamond design?
Right now some of the most dangerous sections of roads in B/CS in terms of number of collisions and rate of injury would probably surprise many. Most of the motoring public don't have a firm understanding as to the causes of most collisions or what steps could have mitigated injuries or the crash its self because the on the surface reason that they understand may not be the root cause
For instance due to allowed unprotected left turns the 2200 and 2100 block of E. WJB has a very high collision rate, yet the same in the 2100 block of Briarcrest dropped significantly with the addition of raised medians and metered left turn traffic. Yet most of the crashes aren't fail ROW but coded as following to close or fail to control speed on the CR-3 when it was really a 3 car chain of panic stops due to a fail ROWeft turn that didn't actually make contact. As a single example of many in our community.