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WORCESTER — With a newly declared “Road Safety and Traffic Violence Crisis” in the city after a series of high-profile serious crashes, Worcester’s crash numbers are in focus, and the city saw more crashes for the first half of the year than in years prior.
A new study from the Worcester Regional Research Bureau also looks at the city’s relatively high crash numbers for vulnerable road users for most of the past decade and how road design may have contributed to those numbers.
According to the state Department of Transportation’s Impact crash data portal, which the city used to calculate its crash numbers so far for the crisis declaration, there have been 2,726 crashes in Worcester for the first six months of 2024.
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