DOT Names Four Fatal Qns. Intersections
Two intersections in Ridgewood and on the Glendale/Rego Park/Forest Hills border are among the city’s highest pedestrian crash locations, the city Department of Transportation (DOT) reported Thursday, June 5.
The city DOT notified Community Boards 5 and 6 of the report, which ranked 20 of the most dangerous intersections in the city based on data from the New York State Department of Traffic (NYSDOT) from 2007 to 2011.
The intersection on Metropolitan Avenue and Woodhaven Boulevard was ranked 18th, just behind the intersection of Myrtle and Wyckoff avenues on the Ridgewood/ Bushwick border. Both intersections had four pedestrians killed or seriously hurt in the five-year period, the report found.
The other intersections in Queens with four deaths or serious injuries in the period included Jackson Avenue and 23rd Street in Hunters Point, and 71st and Metropolitan avenues, in Forest Hills, DOT reported.
The Community Board 5 Transportation Committee has discussed altering the dangerous confluence of Myrtle and Wyckoff avenues and Palmetto Street as recently as last month, as reported in the Times Newsweekly May 22 edition.
A 23-year-old woman, Ella Bandes was killed at the Wyckoff Avenue intersection last year.
As part of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Vision Zero Action Plan, which aims to eliminate traffic fatalities by 2024, Board 5 heard a presentation by the DOT on changes to make the Ridgewood intersection safer at the last monthly meeting Wednesday, May 14.
