FEBRUARY 5, 2024
What are dangerous roads and intersections for Wichita car accidents in Wichita and Sedgwick County?
Wichita has a number of dangerous roadways and intersections where frequent accidents happen. Wichita lies along major state and federal highways and intestates which brings tremendous tractor-trailer and large truck traffic through Wichita and Sedgwick County.
The area is known for aircraft manufacturing which brings semi-trucks and large box vans used for delivery to ship aircraft parts, motors, fuselages, and wings across the county so that the various manufacturing companies like Textron with Cessna and Beechcraft, Bombardier and Spirit can have parts shipped by large truck to their plants.
Importantly, there is a large Amazon Distribution plants and large warehouses for Dillons and other retailers in the area which drawn constant large truck and semi-truck activity. Smaller vehicles do not stand a chance of not being injured when they crash into a large truck. It is well known from FMCSA studies on driver distraction that report that at least 71 percent of all large truck crashes are from the truck driver being distracted from actually driving the truck.
The KDOT 2021 Traffic Crash Book reported that the number one contributing circumstance to motor vehicle crashes across Kansas is driver inattention. Wichita had so many motor vehicle crashes in 2021 that the KDOT reported 7,365 accidents resulting in 3,636 injuries and 52 fatalities.

The Most Dangerous Roads and Intersections in Wichita and Sedgwick County are:
- Kellogg and Webb Road. The WPD has reported this as a high accident location for motor vehicle accidents.
- Kellogg and Greenwich Road. The WPD has advised t his is a dangerous intersection for motor vehicle crashes.
- Kellogg and Rock Road. The Wichita Police Department (WPD) reported more than 40 accidents at this location for 2019. In 2018 this intersection had 54 motor vehicle accidents.
- Kellogg and Broadway. The WPD reported substantial accidents at Broadway and Kellogg each and every year.
- Kellogg and Seneca. The WPD reported this is a dangerous intersection for car crashes. KWCH issued a news report on April 8, 2022, that Kellogg and Seneca was the worst intersection for traffics in 2022.
- Kellogg and Ridge Road. This are is known for high speed traffic accidents with many from large trucks.
- Kellogg and Tyler Road. Like Ridge Road and Kellogg, Tyler and Kellogg has a large number of traffic accidents from semi-truck traffic heading both west and east.
- 13th and Rock Road. This is a well known high accident locating according to the WPD.
- 13th and Broadway. This is an area known for many distracted driving accidents every year.
- 13th and West Street. Inattentive drivers frequently have accidents at this location.
- 13th and Ridge Road. Every year a substantial number of motor vehicle crashes occur here.
- 13th and Tyler Road. This is an area known for higher speed serious traffic accidents.
- 13th and Maize Road. This area is a heavily congested area of West Wichita that is known to be dangerous for traffic accidents.
- Central and Hillside. This area near Wesley Medical Center has many red light accidents where careless drivers run the lights going in all directions.
- Central and 1st Street. Heavy traffic getting off and on of I-135 has routine traffic accidents that are high speed and deadly.
- Central and 2nd Street. The on and off ramps at I-235 cause many red light traffic accidents here where speeders fail to stop for the lights.
- Broadway and Douglas. This area is congested due to heavy downtown traffic where often occur frequently due to inattentive driving.
- Washington and Douglas. This is another area off Douglas that has significant motor vehicle crashes.
- 21st Street and 167th Street West. Sedgwick County is conducting a study on this intersection because over the last ten years more than 50 accidents have happened there and at least four have caused deaths. Most of the accidents are due to driver inattention.
- Amazon warehouse locations. Amazon warehouse at North Toben Street and Webb Road have dangerous delivery trucks all day long. The Amazon Fulfillment Center is at North Broadway and W. 69th Street in Park City, causing dangerous truck traffic daily.
- Dillon's Distribution Center Warehouse. This warehouse is near Kellogg aka US 400 and US 54 highways and intersections with S. 215th Street West to the west edge of Wichita. Drivers should be caution when driving in this area due to Dillons and Kroger Food Trucks who are on rapid delivery schedules causing truck drivers to speed.
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