Fort Worth's 10 Most Dangerous Intersections (2021-2025 Crash Data)

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Nine years ago we mapped the most dangerous intersections in Fort Worth and NBC 5 broadcast live from the worst one. That list was built on a single year of crash counts. This time we went bigger: five full years of state crash records, every intersection in the city, and a ranking that gives more weight to the crashes that put people in the hospital.

The short version: the intersection that topped our list in 2017 still tops it today, the I-35W frontage roads on the south side have become the most consistently dangerous corridor in Fort Worth, and two of the five intersections from the old list have fallen off it entirely.

Key findings

Fort Worth police and other agencies reported 80,773 crashes inside the city limits between January 2021 and December 2025. Those crashes killed 603 people and produced 2,679 suspected serious injuries. A little more than four in ten (34,776) happened at or approaching an intersection, and those intersection crashes account for 159 of the deaths.

The 10 intersections below produced 1,410 crashes in five years, about 4 percent of every intersection crash in a city of nearly a million people. Someone was hurt in 493 of those crashes, and one person died at them.

Left turns are the recurring villain. Citywide, 31 percent of intersection crashes involve a left-turning vehicle. At the top 10 it is 40 percent, and at W Risinger and S Hulen it is 82 percent.

Five of the 10 are where a city street meets a freeway frontage road, two of them on I-35W (Seminary and Berry) and two on I-20 (Hulen, and Crowley and James).

Crashes at these intersections peak between 3 and 6 p.m. Citywide, the single worst hour is 4 to 5 p.m., and Friday is the worst day.

The list

Ranked by Danger Score. Fatal and suspected serious injury crashes count 10, suspected minor injury 3, possible injury 1.5, and no-injury crashes 1. “Injury crashes” means at least one person was reported hurt.

Ranking by raw crash count instead would reshuffle the middle of the list but not the top: Henderson at Belknap and Weatherford is first either way, and E Seminary at I-35W is second either way.

The top 10, up close

1. Henderson St at Belknap St & Weatherford St (downtown)

197 crashes, 73 with injuries. This is the same spot that topped our 2017 list, where Jacksboro Highway turns into Henderson Street and crosses the Belknap and Weatherford one-way pair on the west edge of downtown. Nothing has changed except the volume: 38 crashes in 2021, 51 in 2025, the highest single-year count of any intersection in the city. Four in ten crashes involve a left turn, and the afternoon rush (4 to 5 p.m.) is the peak hour. Three of the crashes hit pedestrians.

2. E Seminary Dr at I-35W

183 crashes, 59 with injuries. The frontage-road intersections on either side of I-35W at Seminary are the most consistent trouble spot in the city, with 33 to 43 crashes every single year. Nearly half the crashes are angle collisions (someone pulling across traffic), nearly half happen after dark, and the peak hour is 8 p.m., not the afternoon rush. Eight crashes here struck pedestrians, the most of any intersection in the top 10.

3. E Berry St at I-35W

130 crashes, 45 with injuries, 5 fatal or serious, 1 killed. One exit north of Seminary, same story: frontage roads, angle crashes, 45 percent at night. Crashes dropped to 13 in 2024 and jumped back to 34 in 2025.

4. Overton Ridge Blvd at Chisholm Trail Pkwy

100 crashes, 46 with injuries, 7 fatal or serious. Fewer total crashes than most of the top 10, but the worst injury rate: nine suspected serious injuries in five years. Fifty-seven percent of crashes involve a left turn, almost all of them in daylight. This is the intersection where drivers coming off the tollway meet Hulen Mall traffic.

5. Trinity Blvd at SH 360

142 crashes, 50 with injuries. Far east Fort Worth, in the CentrePort area between the airport and Arlington. Split evenly between rear-end and angle crashes, which is the signature of a wide, fast, signalized intersection.

6. S Hulen St at I-20 & Southwest Blvd

126 crashes, 56 with injuries. The tangle where Hulen crosses the I-20 frontage roads next to the Southwest Boulevard interchange. Steady at 22 to 29 crashes every year. No fatal or serious-injury crashes, but the third-highest injury count on the list.

7. N Main St & NW 28th St (Stockyards)

142 crashes, 40 with injuries. The fastest-rising intersection on this list: 13 crashes in 2021, 48 in 2025. That is a 269 percent increase in five years, and it tracks the Stockyards’ growth as a tourist destination. This intersection was #5 on our 2017 list.

8. Crowley Rd & James Ave at I-20

142 crashes, 42 with injuries. Crowley Road and James Avenue both cross I-20 within a block of each other on the south side, and the frontage-road signals between them generate a crash every 13 days. Forty-four percent involve a left turn.

9. W Risinger Rd & S Hulen St

105 crashes, 49 with injuries, 4 fatal or serious. The clearest left-turn problem in the city: 82 percent of crashes here involve a left-turning vehicle, and only 5 percent are classic T-bones. This is a growing far-south-side intersection where a permissive left turn (turning on a green ball across oncoming traffic) is almost certainly the mechanism. It is a candidate for a protected-only left-turn phase.

10. E Belknap St & Weatherford St at Grove St

143 crashes, 33 with injuries. The east end of the Belknap and Weatherford pair, where downtown traffic funnels toward I-35W. Sixty-four percent of crashes are same-direction (rear-end and sideswipe), the highest share on the list, which points to congestion and lane changes rather than red-light running.

Then and now: our 2017 list

In April 2017 we published the five most dangerous intersections in Fort Worth based on the prior year’s crash counts, and NBC 5 covered it live from Henderson and Weatherford. Here is where those five stand today.

Henderson at Weatherford has not moved. It averaged 39 crashes a year over the last five years, not far off the 51 recorded in 2016, and it still leads the city.

N Riverside and Western Center is the success story. It went from 28 crashes in one year to 45 crashes in five, an average of nine a year, and dropped to 116th in the city. Whatever changed on that corner (signal timing, turn lanes, the surrounding retail) worked.

E 5th and Commerce downtown no longer registers as a single hotspot. Crashes on the 4th and 5th Street one-way pair are now scattered across a dozen small clusters between Houston and Jones Streets, none of them big enough to rank.

The 2017 list counted crashes. This list weights them by injuries, uses five years instead of one, and treats the paired frontage-road signals on either side of a freeway as one intersection. Rankings are not directly comparable, but the direction of change at each location is.

Why these intersections

A few patterns run through the whole list.

Frontage roads. Five of the 10 are frontage-road intersections, along I-35W, I-20, SH 360 and the Chisholm Trail Parkway. Drivers coming off a freeway exit are still carrying freeway speed and attention. Drivers on the cross street have to clear two wide, fast signals in a row. TxDOT controls these intersections, not the City of Fort Worth.

Left turns. Permissive left turns (a green ball instead of a green arrow) show up again and again. W Risinger and S Hulen (82 percent) and Overton Ridge at Chisholm Trail (57 percent) are both intersections where the fix is well understood: a protected-only left-turn phase or a flashing yellow arrow.

Night. A third of crashes at the top 10 happen in dark or dusk conditions, and at the I-35W frontage roads it is closer to half. E Seminary at I-35W peaks at 8 p.m. and its worst day is Sunday.

Growth. The Stockyards (N Main and 28th) and the far south side (Risinger, Crowley Road) are rising. Roads that were built for a smaller Fort Worth are carrying a bigger one.

If you drive through these intersections

Treat a green ball on a left turn as a yield, not a go. Look twice for motorcycles and pedestrians before turning. On a frontage road, expect the car exiting the freeway to be going faster than you think, and expect the car in front of you to stop short at the second signal. If you or someone you love was hurt at one of these intersections, the crash report and the intersection’s history both matter. A location with 100 prior crashes and a documented left-turn problem is a very different case than a random fender bender, and it is the kind of evidence we use. Contact us for a free consultation.

Methodology

Source. Texas Department of Transportation Crash Records Information System (CRIS), the statewide database of police-reported crashes (Texas Peace Officer’s Crash Report, form CR-3). We queried every crash with a City of Fort Worth location and a crash year of 2021 through 2025, as the database stood on September 2, 2026. That returned 80,773 crashes.

Intersection crashes. We kept the 34,776 crashes that officers coded as “intersection” or “intersection related,” and dropped crashes coded as non-intersection or driveway access.

Locating intersections. Rather than trust the street names typed on each report (which for state highways are route codes like “BU0287P” and “SH0183”), we grouped crashes by their reported GPS coordinates. Crashes within about 165 feet of each other were clustered, with no cluster allowed to exceed 300 feet across. Adjacent clusters that shared a road, such as the two frontage-road signals on either side of a freeway or the two halves of a one-way pair, were combined into one intersection when they sat within about 425 feet of each other. Each intersection was then named from the OpenStreetMap roads at that location and checked by hand.

Exclusions. Freeway main-lane crashes near interchanges (for example, on I-35W itself at NE 28th Street) were excluded because they are not intersections a driver crosses. One group of 105 crashes coded “BU 287P at SH 183” but plotted in a rail yard with no roadway was excluded as unlocatable. 81 intersection crashes had no coordinates.

Danger Score. Each crash is weighted by the most severe injury reported: fatal (K) or suspected serious injury (A) crashes count 10, suspected minor injury (B) 3, possible injury (C) 1.5, and no injury or unknown 1. Fatal and serious injuries are grouped together because five years of data at a single intersection produces only a handful of each, and separating them would let a single death swing the list. The weights follow the “equivalent property damage only” approach used in traffic-safety engineering, simplified for readability.

Caveats. CRIS includes only crashes reported to police with at least $1,000 in damage or an injury. GPS coordinates on crash reports are imperfect and some crashes are plotted at a nominal point rather than the exact location. Traffic volume was not available, so this list ranks intersections by harm, not by risk per vehicle. The 2017 list used a different source year and a different method and is compared for direction only.

Reuse. The map, the table and the underlying data are free to republish with a link to this page. Reporters and city officials can request the full 80,773-crash dataset and our cluster-level results by emailing travis@pattersonpersonalinjury.com.

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