14-year-old girl critically injured at Hamilton intersection that is notoriously dangerous

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Published March 30, 2022 at 9:35 pm

A 14-year-old girl is in hospital in critical but stable condition after being struck by a driver at a notoriously dangerous Hamilton intersection.

Shortly before 4 p.m. today (March 30), the Hamilton police asked the public to avoid the intersection of Dundurn Street South and Main St. W., where the girl was reportedly struck while she was walking home from school. The driver, a 49-year-old Hamilton man, stayed at the scene and is cooperating with the Hamilton Police Service.

The Hamilton Police Service says that the child was taken to McMaster Children’s Hospital, and her condition is considered “stable.”

The intersection is near a GO Bus stop. The traffic backup is causing delays on the Nos. 18, 40 and 41 GO routes. The intersection was closed for over 2½ hours before reopening at 5:54 p.m. on Wednesday.

Dundurn crosses Main, which carries up to five lanes of one-way traffic. The intersection is one of the most dangerous in Hamilton. Last year, the City of Hamilton’s public works department’s collision report said Dundurn and Main had the fifth-most collisions of any Hamilton intersection between 2016 and ’20. There were 25 collisions between motorists, and another seven where a motorist hit a pedestrian. Two cyclists were also struck.

Just a couple hundred metres away, in fact, the Dundurn and King West intersection had 11 recorded instances of drivers striking a pedestrian over the same timespan.

Six of the seven most dangerous intersections for collisions were along either King or Main streets.

The collision report that takes in 2021 statistics will not be presented until some time in the summer.

Hamilton has already had seven traffic deaths in the first three months of 2022. That includes the deaths of four people on March 19 after the speeding driver of a stolen vehicle lost control on Main St. E., near King E., and struck a concrete hydro pole.

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