High Crash Network Streets
Alphabetical by street name
| Street & Quadrant(s) | High # Driving Crashes | High # Pedestrian Crashes | High # Biking Crashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 102nd Avenue, NE | -- | -- | ✓ |
| 122nd Avenue, NE/SE | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 4th Avenue, SW | -- | ✓ | -- |
| 7th Avenue, SE | -- | -- | ✓ |
| 82nd Avenue, NE/SE | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 92nd Avenue, NE/SE | -- | ✓ | -- |
| Airport Way, NE | ✓ | -- | -- |
| Barbur Boulevard, SW | ✓ | -- | -- |
| Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway, SW | ✓ | -- | -- |
| Broadway, NE/NW/SW | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Burnside Road, E/W | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Capitol Highway, SW | -- | -- | ✓ |
| César E. Chávez Boulevard, NE/SE | -- | ✓ | -- |
| Columbia Boulevard, N/NE | ✓ | -- | -- |
| Division Street, SE | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Foster Road, SE | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fremont Street, N/NE | ✓ | -- | ✓ |
| Glisan Street, NE | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Halsey Street, NE | ✓ | ✓ | -- |
| Hawthorne Boulevard, SE | -- | ✓ | ✓ |
| Holgate Boulevard, SE | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Interstate Avenue, N | -- | -- | ✓ |
| Killingsworth Street, N/NE | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lombard Street, N/NE | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Marine Drive, N/NE | ✓ | -- | -- |
| Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, NE/SE | -- | ✓ | ✓ |
| Powell Boulevard, SE | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sandy Boulevard, SE/NE | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Stark Street, SE | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Terwilliger Boulevard, SW | -- | -- | ✓ |
High Crash Network Streets Methodology
The High Crash Network includes 30 streets. These are a composite of the top 20 high crash streets for driving, the top 20 for bicycling and the top 20 for walking. The analysis uses crash data from 2004 through 2013.
Streets marked as "High # of Driving Crashes" are those with the highest number of people killed or seriously injured in vehicles. Streets marked as having high numbers of bicycle or pedestrian crashes include those with the highest number of crashes, regardless of severity, for people on bikes and walking, respectively.
While the aim of Vision Zero is to eliminate deadly and serious injury crashes, we include all crashes for people biking and pedestrians because the difference between a minor injury and a serious injury to a person biking or pedestrian is often random and circumstantial.
High Crash Network Intersections
The table below identifies the 30 intersections in Portland with the highest numbers of reported collisions using data from 2015 through 2019.
Intersections in the table are ordered from least safe to more safe. Rankings reflect three metrics: total number of crashes, collision rate, and total value of collisions.
| Rank | Intersection | Deaths | Serious Injuries | Moderate Injuries | Minor Injuries | Collision Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SE 122nd Avenue & Stark Street | 2 | 6 | 11 | 104 | 0.80 |
| 2 | SE 122nd Avenue & Division Street | 1 | 1 | 5 | 104 | 0.70 |
| 3 | SE 82nd Avenue & Powell Boulevard* | 0 | 2 | 21 | 123 | 0.69 |
| 4 | SE 148th Avenue & Stark Street | 1 | 0 | 11 | 63 | 0.79 |
| 5 | SE 148th Avenue & Powell Boulevard* | 2 | 2 | 11 | 40 | 0.82 |
| 6 | NE 82nd Avenue & Glisan Street* | 1 | 6 | 12 | 58 | 0.67 |
| 6 | SE Foster Road / 96th Avenue / I-205 northbound ramp* | 0 | 0 | 13 | 63 | 0.97 |
| 7 | NE 99th Avenue & Glisan Street | 0 | 0 | 4 | 72 | 0.98 |
| 8 | SE 92nd Avenue & Holgate Boulevard | 2 | 5 | 6 | 38 | 0.73 |
| 9 | SE 122nd Avenue & Powell Boulevard* | 0 | 2 | 8 | 76 | 0.70 |
| 10 | SE Division Street & I-205 southbound ramp* | 0 | 1 | 10 | 65 | 0.70 |
| 11 | NE 122nd Avenue & Glisan Street | 0 | 2 | 8 | 77 | 0.63 |
| 11 | NE Glisan Street & I-205 northbound ramp* | 0 | 0 | 16 | 86 | 0.61 |
| 12 | Ross Island Bridge & SW Naito Parkway ramp* | 0 | 2 | 6 | 51 | 0.92 |
| 13 | NE 102nd Avenue & Halsey Street | 0 | 3 | 13 | 44 | 0.74 |
| 14 | SE 92nd Avenue & Washington Street | 0 | 4 | 14 | 33 | 1.34 |
| 15 | SE 82nd Avenue & Flavel Street* | 1 | 0 | 5 | 45 | 0.64 |
| 16 | NE 102nd Avenue & Glisan Street | 0 | 0 | 9 | 66 | 0.63 |
| 17 | SE 112th Avenue & Powell Boulevard* | 0 | 1 | 7 | 55 | 0.77 |
| 18 | SE 136th Avenue & Powell Boulevard* | 0 | 1 | 12 | 47 | 0.79 |
| 19 | SE 92nd Avenue & Powell Boulevard* | 0 | 0 | 11 | 83 | 0.54 |
| 20 | SE 92nd Avenue & Foster Road | 1 | 0 | 3 | 29 | 0.67 |
| 21 | I-5 northbound off-ramp / NE Victoria Avenue / Weidler Street* | 0 | 4 | 15 | 48 | 0.56 |
| 22 | E Burnside Street & 122nd Avenue | 0 | 0 | 9 | 52 | 0.66 |
| 23 | NE 122nd Avenue & Halsey Street | 0 | 3 | 9 | 69 | 0.47 |
| 23 | SE 96th Drive / Division Street / I-205 northbound ramp* | 0 | 0 | 6 | 62 | 0.55 |
| 24 | SE 112th Avenue & Division Street | 1 | 1 | 2 | 59 | 0.41 |
| 25 | SE 82nd Avenue & Division Street | 0 | 4 | 3 | 54 | 0.48 |
| 26 | SE 174th Avenue & Powell Boulevard* | 0 | 1 | 3 | 42 | 0.68 |
| 26 | SE 110th Drive / 111th Avenue / Foster Road | 0 | 0 | 3 | 45 | 0.70 |
| *Intersection includes one or more streets owned by Oregon Department of Transportation. | ||||||
High Crash Network Intersections Details & Methodology
Crash data was queried from the Portland Bureau of Transportation's AccidentHistory database based on Oregon Department of Transportation crash data. Query output included the top 100 intersections in Portland with the highest number of intersection and intersection-related crashes that occurred between 2015 - 2019.
Only fatal and injury crashes (of all severity levels: serious, moderate, and minor) were included. Crashes selected occurred at intersections or were intersection-related only. All modes were considered as part of the overall High Crash Intersection analysis. Separate HCI lists for bicycle crashes and pedestrian crashes are to follow.
The top 100 intersections in the City of Portland with the highest frequency of crashes following the above criteria were selected and then ranked using the sum of rankings from three different measures:
- Number of Deadly and Injury Crashes: The intersections were first ranked by number of crashes that occurred within the 5-year time period as aggregated by the original database query.
- Collision Rate: Number of crashes coded to an intersection are normalized by considering the number of cars traveling through the intersection. The calculation for the collision rate (collisions per million entering vehicles) is: Collision Rate = (Crashes/5 years) X (1 year/365 days) X (1/ADT*) X 1,000,000. Note: ADT (average daily traffic) is the number of vehicles entering the intersection daily.
- Severity of Crashes: Severity of crashes is represented by the total economic value of a crash, figured by assigning monetary value to the severity of crash related injuries using National Safety Council figures. The value of each crash is figured by multiplying the number of crash related fatalities and/or injury types by the values below. The number of fatalities and injuries are sustained injuries, not number of crashes. Total Value = # Fatals* Fatal $ + # Inj A* Inj A $ + # Inj B* Inj B $ + # In C* Inj C $
| Fatal value | Injury A value | Injury B value | Injury C value |
|---|---|---|---|
| $1,550,000 | $90,000 | $26,000 | $21,000 |
This report is compiled from data supplied by the Oregon Department of Transportation, Transportation Safety Division, Crash Analysis and Reporting Unit, from records originally received by the Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles. Due to under-reporting of collisions, this list should not be considered to represent all collisions occurring at the intersections listed. The City of Portland Bureau of Transportation analyzed the data and prepared the resulting report.