The 10 Most Dangerous Intersections in Avondale, According to Two Years of ADOT Data

Avondale's table in the Metro Phoenix Dangerous Intersections Study — the two-year ADOT-data analysis published by our sister outlet AZ Crash Data — is dominated by one corridor and, notably, recorded no deaths at all. Here are the city's ten highest-crash intersections for 2023-2024, exactly as the study ranks them.

Avondale

| Rank | Intersection | Crashes | People injured | Deaths | |---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | Avondale Blvd & Van Buren St | 52 | 21 | 0 | | 2 | Dysart Rd & McDowell Rd | 46 | 21 | 0 | | 3 | Coldwater Plaza Entrance & Dysart Rd | 44 | 19 | 0 | | 4 | Dysart Rd & Van Buren St | 44 | 15 | 0 | | 5 | 107th Ave & McDowell Rd | 43 | 19 | 0 | | 6 | Dysart Rd & Rancho Santa Fe Blvd | 43 | 7 | 0 | | 7 | Avondale Blvd & McDowell Rd | 33 | 11 | 0 | | 8 | Avondale Blvd & Coldwater Springs Blvd | 27 | 18 | 0 | | 9 | Dysart Rd & Indian School Rd | 27 | 17 | 0 | | 10 | 107th Ave & Van Buren St | 26 | 18 | 0 |

What stands out in the Avondale data

• Zero deaths across the entire top ten — Avondale joins Scottsdale as the only profiled cities whose highest-crash lists produced no fatalities over the two years.
• Dysart Road appears five times (McDowell, Coldwater Plaza, Van Buren, Rancho Santa Fe, Indian School) and Avondale Boulevard three more — eight of ten entries on two parallel north-south corridors.
• A shopping-plaza entrance makes the list: the Coldwater Plaza entrance at Dysart ranks third with 44 crashes — a reminder that driveway-dense retail stretches can generate as much crash activity as major signalized crossings.

Reading this as a driver

Avondale's pattern is retail-corridor congestion: the Dysart and Avondale Boulevard commercial stretches carry nearly the whole list. The habits that fit are low-speed ones — patience at driveway entrances and plaza turn-ins, generous gaps on unprotected lefts, and a beat after the green on Van Buren and McDowell.

The full regional study — top-25 regional table, deadliest crossings, and per-city tables for a dozen Valley cities — is available at AZ Crash Data.

Data: ADOT crash-level records, 2023-2024, via the AZ Crash Data intersections study. Crash records describe where collisions occurred, not who was at fault. Safe Roads AZ and AZ Crash Data are both published by Ironwood Media Group LLC.