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About 3.4 percent of all crashes in Ann Arbor over a three-year span were caused by a driver running a red right, and the city was ranked No. 8 overall in total red-light running crashes in Southeast Michigan.
That data was released today by the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments to coincide with the 13th annual National Stop on Red Week, which runs from Aug. 1-7.
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From 2007-2009, 94 crashes were blamed on red-light running in Ann Arbor. Those crashes made up 3.4 percent of the city's total 2,782 crashes during that timeframe.
The top city for crashes blamed on red-light running was Detroit, where 858 of the total 22,683 crashes were caused by red-light running.
However, Ann Arbor didn't make the top 10 cities in Southeast Michigan ranked by percentage of crashes caused by running red lights. At 3.4 percent of total crashes, Ann Arbor was far below the No. 1 ranked New Haven, where 9.4 percent of all crashes are due to red-light running (the raw numbers are much lower: 8 of 85 crashes).
Eric Bombery, a transportation planner with the Washtenaw Area Transportation Study, said a total of 580 red-light related crashes occurred in Washtenaw County from 2007-2009.
In total, SEMCOG says more than 3,508 crashes that occurred at intersections with traffic signals in 2009 resulted from a driver running a red light. Twelve of those crashes were fatal.
Courtesy of SEMCOG.
Courtesy of SEMCOG
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