Preventing Florida’s Fatal Miami Intersection Car Accidents

Preventing Florida’s Fatal Miami intersection car accidents I was saddened to learn of the tragic car accident that killed a University of Miami student yesterday. Dino Ghilotti was a passenger in a car just a few blocks from campus. The fatal accident happened at 4:37 in the morning at the intersection of Bird Road and San Amaro Drive, just a block from the Coral Gables campus. According to the Florida Department of Transportation, intersection accidents account for nearly 40% of traffic crashes every day. It would seem that those accidents are random and unpredictable. While the facts are unknown as to how Mr. Ghilotti was killed, intersection accidents are far more predictable than one might imagine. The University of Central Florida’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering performed an analysis of Florida’s intersections to see if there are patterns or similarities that make certain intersections more dangerous than others. To perform this analysis, the department examined nearly 30,000 accidents at over 1500 intersections, in six Florida counties, over three years.