Look Both Ways

By Margaret Lyons in News on Aug 4, 2008 6:08PM

Every year, 71 Chicago pedestrians are killed and 930 are seriously injured when they're hit by cars, according to the North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center. The most dangerous intersection for pedestrians is 79th and King Drive, where 13 people were hit in 2003 and 2005, the years for which information was available.

The City commissioned the study, which ranked the 48 most dangerous intersections. The 10 worst are:

• 79th and Martin Luther King Drive (13 people)
• 79th and Ashland (11)
• North and California (10)
• Madison and Cicero (9)
• Irving Park and Pulaski (8)
• North and Kedzie (8)
• 95th and Halsted (8)
• Monroe and Michigan (8)
• Washington and Clark (7)
• Randolph and Dearborn (7)

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