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Dearborn’s most dangerous intersections: Michigan and Oakwood led the city with 122 crashes in 2025
DEARBORN, Mich. — The corner of Michigan Avenue and Oakwood Boulevard saw more crashes last year than any other intersection in Dearborn, according to Dearborn Police Department figures published Oct. 25 by The Yemeni American, a Dearborn-based news site.
The police count put 122 crashes at Michigan and Oakwood in 2025, about one every three days. The second-worst crossing, Michigan Avenue at Outer Drive, had 103. Those two intersections sit at opposite ends of downtown West Dearborn, the busy strip of restaurants, coffee shops and offices that has filled in over the past decade.
The Yemeni American reported that Michigan Avenue narrows from three lanes to two near Oakwood, creating a bottleneck for drivers heading into downtown from the east, and that the district now draws diners and residents on top of commuters crossing between the western suburbs and Detroit.
The full list. Here are the 2025 crash totals the police department provided, grouped by part of the city:
West Dearborn: Michigan Avenue and Oakwood, 122; Michigan and Outer Drive, 103; Michigan and Telegraph Road, 70; Telegraph and Cherry Hill Road, 67; Telegraph and Ford Road, 49.
Central Dearborn, along the Southfield Freeway (M-39): M-39 and Michigan Avenue, 70; M-39 and Ford Road, 53; M-39 and Rotunda Drive, 50.
East Dearborn: Ford Road and Greenfield Road, 88; Ford and Schaefer Road, 86; the Ford, Michigan and Wyoming area, 77; the Michigan, Miller and Oakman area, 70; Ford and Chase Road, 59.
Why the state’s list looks different. A year ago, The News-Herald ranked Dearborn-area intersections using Michigan State Police crash data for 2024. That list put an intersection it labeled “Ford Road at Ford Road” on top with 62 crashes and 19 injury crashes, followed by Mercury Drive at Ford with 50, and Michigan and Oakwood did not appear among its Dearborn entries. The two lists cover different years and come from different record sets: the state ranking counts crash reports tied to a specific intersection, while the city’s figures come from its own police records, and neither publication spelled out how crashes near, rather than inside, an intersection were counted. The safest reading is that both point to the same corridors: Michigan Avenue through West Dearborn and Ford Road across the east side.
What the city is doing. Dearborn has stepped up traffic enforcement, brought back its traffic school program and added hundreds of speed bumps on neighborhood streets, The Yemeni American reported. Mayor Abdullah Hammoud’s administration is also studying narrower, slower designs for several main roads, including Michigan Avenue and Outer Drive, and the city has been testing three-hour parking limits in West Downtown lots to keep spaces turning over.
What this means for you. If you drive Michigan Avenue between Outer Drive and Oakwood, expect slowing traffic, turning cars and pedestrians crossing between shops. On Ford Road, the Greenfield and Schaefer intersections had nearly as many crashes as downtown West Dearborn. Crashes also feed insurance costs for everyone; The Yemeni American noted that Dearborn drivers already pay some of the highest car insurance rates in Michigan.
Anyone who wants to check an intersection on a commute can look up the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments’ high-frequency crash map, which ranks locations across the region, or the state’s Michigan Traffic Crash Facts site, which lets users search crashes by city, road and year.
Sources:
The Yemeni American, “A look at the most dangerous intersections in Dearborn,” Oct. 25, 2026 (Dearborn Police Department 2025 crash counts by intersection, lane drop near Oakwood, enforcement, traffic school and speed bumps), https://yemeniamerican.com/en/a-look-at-the-most-dangerous-intersections-in-dearborn/
The News-Herald, “Most dangerous intersections in Downriver, Dearborn areas ranked,” Oct. 10, 2025 (Michigan State Police 2024 crash data), https://www.thenewsherald.com/2025/10/10/most-dangerous-intersections-in-downriver-dearborn-areas-ranked-2/
SEMCOG, High Frequency Crash Locations, https://data.semcog.org/high-frequency-crash-locations
Michigan Traffic Crash Facts, https://www.michigantrafficcrashfacts.org/
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