St. Louis County has implemented a long-term traffic safety plan based on Vision Zero principles. This philosophy centers on the idea that car accidents aren’t truly accidents. Rather, they’re preventable events that result from predictable factors such as road design and risky driving.
You can see this principle at work when you view a map of the most dangerous roads/intersections in Ladue, MO. Traffic congestion and poor driving make the city’s busiest roads its riskiest. A car accident lawyer in Ladue from Schultz & Myers Personal Injury Lawyers can assist you in exercising your legal rights after a crash on these roads.
Call our Ladue office at (314) 912-3302 to get started.
How Schultz & Myers Personal Injury Lawyers Can Help After a Car Accident on a Dangerous Road in Ladue, MO
Since its founding over a decade ago, our firm has recovered more than $100 million in settlements and jury verdicts for traffic accident victims in Ladue, Missouri. Our team has more than a century of combined legal experience pursuing fair compensation from auto insurers and at-fault drivers after a crash.
Our Ladue personal injury lawyers can provide the following assistance when someone’s reckless driving causes a car accident:
- Discussing your injuries and how they happened
- Analyzing your situation and gathering evidence to prove liability
- Filing an auto insurance claim and working with insurers to resolve it
- Suing the at-fault driver if their insurer refuses to offer a fair settlement
A collision could result in life-changing injuries and severe financial hardship. Schedule a free consultation with one of our Ladue car accident attorneys to learn more about how we can help you seek compensation for your injury-related losses and expenses.
Crash Clusters in Ladue
There are two sources of location information for Ladue car accidents. The first appears on the high-injury network map prepared by the East-West Gateway Council of Governments.
This map uses collision data to calculate crash density in the following jurisdictions:
- St. Charles County
- Franklin County
- St. Louis County
- City of St. Louis
- Jefferson County
- Monroe County
- St. Clair County
- Madison County
The second source is the crash map provided by the Missouri State Highway Patrol (MSHP). This source plots individual crashes as dots. Thus, the map displays clusters of dots where crashes occur most frequently.
These resources identify the following locations as Ladue’s most dangerous:
Dangerous Roads in Ladue
While road design and surface conditions can contribute to a road’s accidents, driving errors cause most crashes. The most common errors that lead to crashes include tailgating, speeding, and distracted driving.
Specifically, road crashes often involve rear-end or head-on collisions. Rear-end collisions happen when a driver hits another vehicle from behind, usually because they fail to react to a slowing or stopped vehicle. Head-on crashes occur when a driver goes the wrong way on a road or highway.
The high-injury network doesn’t include any federally funded highways and interstates. However, the MSHP map covers all roads.
These roads and highways had the most crashes in Ladue, according to the MSHP:
- I-170 between Delmar Blvd. and Forest Park Pkwy.
- Ladue Rd.
- Clayton Rd. between Warson Rd. and McKnight Rd.
- I-64 between McKnight Rd. and Lindbergh Blvd.
- Conway Rd. between Warson Rd. and Lindbergh Blvd.
Over the five years from 2020 through 2024, many of the crashes in Ladue occurred on these roads.
Dangerous Intersections in Ladue
Intersections include locations where multiple roads meet. Intersection collisions often occur when a driver fails to yield the right of way. For example, a driver might run a red light or yield sign and hit another vehicle that obeyed the right-of-way rules.
Many of the city’s riskiest intersections are found on the roads listed among the most dangerous. Notably, the high-injury network map doesn’t identify any dangerous intersections in Ladue.
As such, the following locations come from the MSHP map:
- I-170 at the Ladue Rd. ramps
- Ladue Rd. and Price Rd.
- Ladue Rd. and Warson Rd.
- Conway Rd. and Lindbergh Blvd.
- Conway Rd. and Warson Rd.
- Warson Rd. and Clayton Rd.
- I-64 at the Lindbergh Blvd. ramps
- I-64 at the McKnight Rd. ramps
Pedestrian accidents can also occur at intersections when drivers fail to yield at crosswalks. No intersection in Ladue had more than one crash except Warson Rd. and Clayton Rd.
Contact Our Ladue Car Accident Lawyers for a Free Consultation
Although most crashes in Ladue happen on just a few roads and intersections, every injury claim is unique. The best way to navigate through the tricky legal process for your claim is to work with an attorney who has experience with crash cases in Ladue.
Contact Schultz & Myers Personal Injury Lawyers for a free consultation to discuss the personalized legal strategy we can use to seek compensation on your behalf. Call our Ladue car accident lawyers to get started.
