These High-Crash Intersections In Alexandria Considered For Safety Boosts

ALEXANDRIA, VA — The City of Alexandria is considering safety improvements for what it deems high-crash intersections.

A 2022 citywide crash analysis identified the seven high-crash intersections as part of a goal to understand 10-year crash trends. The same year, the city received federal funding to do safety audits and create concept designs for improvements at the intersections from a U.S. Department of Transportation grant program.

Tackling high-crash areas is part of the city's Vision Zero initiative to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 2028.

The seven intersections, concentrated in the West End, are:

• King Street and Dawes Avenue
• King Street and 28th Street
• King Street and Park Center Drive
• Seminary Road and Mark Center Avenue
• Seminary Road and Kenmore Avenue/Library Lane
• South Van Dorn Street and South Pickett Street
• South Van Dorn Street and Edsall Road

The city is collecting public feedback on experiences at these intersections. The public input will help the project staff examine challenges and needs at the intersections as well as strategies to improve them. Feedback is due by April 28.

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The city's Vision Zero Crash dashboard tracks crashes and whether they caused property damage only, injuries or a fatality from 2011 to 2024. For example, the dashboard shows a fatal pedestrian crash in 2019 at Mark Center Drive near Seminary Road, as well as a pedestrian crash with a severe injury in 2018 at that intersection.

At South Van Dorn Street and South Pickett Street, a fatal crash happened in 2014, and crashes with a severe injury happened in 2016 and 2024.

At King Street and Park Center Drive, there was a fatal pedestrian crash in 2011, fatal crash in 2018, and crashes with severe injuries in 2014, 2017 and 2024.

King Street and 28th Street South had a severe injury crash in 2013 and severe injury pedestrian crash in 2020.

At South Van Dorn Street and Edsall Road, there were pedestrian crashes with a severe injury in 2013 and 2019 plus a severe injury from an angle crash in 2014.

At King Street and Dawes Avenue near the border with Bailey's Crossroads in Fairfax County, severe injury crashes were reported in 2016 and 2020.

In the area of Seminary Road and Kenmore Avenue, there was a severe injury pedestrian crash in 2017.

The seven high-crash intersections aren't the only places where multiple severe injury or fatality crashes have occurred, as the Vision Zero crash dashboard shows.