For a small town, Shallotte has traffic problems.
For the past three years, the North Carolina Department of Transportation has ranked Shallotte among the worst small for road safety.
The branch rates cities with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants by combining road safety knowledge from 2019 to 2021, adding the total number of injuries, annual fatal injuries consistent with a population of 1000, and the consistent average annual injury charge.
Shallotte, which is expected to double in length in the coming years, ranks 14th among the worst in road safety among more than 450 North Carolina towns.
The 961 injuries reported over the past 3 years have contributed to the city’s ranking, resulting in 130 injuries, adding two deaths. The city ranked 21st in the state for the total number of injuries.
Shallotte Mayor Walt Eccard said the city’s shopping parking masses are sites of low-speed crashes and that, along with traffic from US 17 to Main Street, this may explain the city’s higher ranking.
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Eccard said that in the coming weeks, the city will synchronize traffic lights on Main Street to help reduce congestion. The state’s transportation improvement program also includes two other projects that can improve the city’s traffic.
A task to realign the three-lane intersection on Wall Street and Shallotte Avenue could begin in a few months, Eccard added.
Rights-of-way purchases are underway for the long-term allocation of shallotte Bypass that would turn the intersections where US 17 meets Smith Avenue and Main Street into interchanges. This allocation is years away.
Only Shallotte in the total number of injuries is another small town in the Wilmington area, Surf City, which recorded 827 injuries in 3 years, resulting in 138 injuries and one death.
Overall, Surf City ranked 37th among the worst in road safety. The 53 alcohol-related injuries reported contributed to his ranking, the sixth-highest number in the state.
“I think it’s because of the influx of tourists we’re seeing,” city manager Kyle Breuer said. “We are a very small city but we have a lot of traffic, so it has contributed to the volume of accidents. “
Despite its highest number of general and alcohol-related accidents, road safety is general in Surf City, having ranked among the 10 worst small towns for road safety in each of the last 3 years.
In 2020, it ranked fifth in North Carolina, an improvement over last year when it ranked fourth. It ranked eighth in 2018.
Breuer credited the replacement of the Surf City Bridge in late 2018 for aiding road safety. The task added roundabouts on both sides of the bridge, expanding traffic and potentially reducing accidents.
“As other people continue to be informed about how to use roundabouts and make them a kind of daily routine, I think we’ll see additional improvements,” he said.
The town also implemented a parking control program last year, which gives bathers designated spots safer than parking anywhere on the right of way.
Oak Island also topped the list of injured, with a total of 543 in 3 years, leaving 70 injured and 2 dead. Although the city is only outdoors the hundred most sensitive for the worst road safety overall, it had one of the highest rates. of alcohol-related injuries in 6. 8%, or 37 in total.
Alcohol-related injuries were a challenge for several children in the Wilmington area.
North Topsail Beach had the percentage of alcohol-related injuries among towns with at least 50 injuries in total. Of the city’s 60 injuries, 15% were alcohol-related.
Overall, its protection rating is roughly in the middle of the pack, with 60 city injuries resulting in thirteen injuries and no fatalities.
Carolina Beach has had 337 accidents in the last 3 years, 8. 3% of which were alcohol-related, 9% in the state. These injuries resulted in 51 injuries and 2 deaths.
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Wrightsville Beach was not far behind, as 7. 3% of its 301 injuries were alcohol-related, the fifteenth highest in North Carolina. He saw 34 injured in those injuries that left no one dead.
Bolivia recorded 72 accidents, of which 6. 9% were related to alcohol, 20 in the state, with a result of 14 injured and no deaths.
Like Shallotte, Bolivia is also booming as a small town with disproportionate traffic problems. It ranked 80th among the worst in the state for overall road safety, but alarmingly experienced one of the biggest rating drops in three years, with 248 emerging positions since 2018.
The city of Wilmington ranked 14th among North Carolina cities with more than 10,000 residents when it comes to the worst road safety. The city recorded 13,912 accidents, resulting in 3,055 injuries and forty-five deaths.
Wilmington had the sixth-worst number of alcohol-related injuries and the seventh-highest number of deaths. It ranks ninth in the total number of injuries.
Leland ranked 84th out of 85 cities with more than 10,000 inhabitants. Leland had 1,617 injuries resulting in 201 injuries and 2 deaths. Of these, 52 injuries were alcohol-related.
Three small towns in the Wilmington Domain were among those requiring road protection in the state. Holden Beach, with only 4 injuries that resulted in no injuries or deaths, has consistently been at the bottom of the list for years.
Kure Beach also had one of the safest traffics, with only six injuries resulting in 4 injuries in the last 3 years. Topsail Beach too, unlike North Topsail, is among the safest, with a total of only 7 injuries that resulted in no injuries or fatalities.
Topsail Beach too, unlike North Topsail, is among the safest, with a total of only 7 injuries that resulted in no injuries or fatalities.