Street Road, Bristol Pike Among PA's Deadliest, Study Says

LOWER BUCKS COUNTY, PA —Two main Lower Bucks County roads have been ranked among the deadliest in the state, according to a recent study.

Street Road and Bristol Pike (Route 13) made the Top 10 list of roads in the Commonwealth analyzed by MoneyGeek, a California finance and insurance firm, analyzed over the period between 2017 and 2019.

MoneyGeek examined 3,176 fatal crashes in Pennsylvania from 2017 to 2019 to learn more about where these crashes occured in the state. It looked at 2,160 roads out of the state’s 251,708 miles of road for the analysis.

MoneyGeek also explored factors contributing to the accidents such as driver behaviors, speeding, distracted driving, drunk driving, time of the year, and weather conditions.

Speeding contributed to 39.6 percent of the accidents, the highest percentage of any factor measured. Drunk driving was the second-most common factor (25.3 percent), followed by distracted driving (6.1 percent).

Bristol Pike from the Levittown Parkway to Beaver Street in Bristol Township and Tullytown Borough was ranked 4th in the study.

It had eight fatalities from eight fatal accidents over 2.8 miles, the study said.

Street Road (Route 132) was ranked 7th in the study with seven fatalities in seven fatal accidents over 4.8 miles.

The study found that October was the deadliest month of the year for fatal accidents.

MoneyGeek’s study showed there were 319 fatal accidents. That's 10 percent of all fatal accidents in Pennsylvania from 2017 to 2019.

October’s numbers were followed by July and June. Those months accounted for 9.8 percent (312) and 9.4 percent (300) of fatal accidents, respectively.

Click here to see the study showing the other deadliest roads ranked in the state