Panel seeks input on how to reduce crashes, fatalities in Pinal County
by Kelly Fisher | Casa Grande Dispatch
Unincorporated regions of Pinal County account for approximately half of the fatal crash sites in the county, and Casa Grande is the site with the most crashes, fatal or otherwise.
That’s according to 2005 to 2014 Arizona Department of Transportation crash data, which the Sun Corridor Metropolitan Planning Organization studied for about a year. During the study period, there were more than 16,000 total crashes in the MPO region, 243 of which were fatal.
The most common collisions are single-vehicle crashes, pedestrian and head-on crashes.
The MPO, which includes Casa Grande, Coolidge, Eloy and some unincorporated areas of Pinal County, held a public meeting at Central Arizona College’s Signal Peak Campus on Wednesday to discuss a draft Strategic Transportation Safety Plan.
