Slick Nick Law

California intersections ranked by reported crashes

Reviewed by Slick Nick, California licensed attorney · State Bar #324789 · Last updated September 1, 2026

2,370 surface-street junctions across 116 cities and 21 counties, ranked by crashes reported in 2023 and 2024. Every location has been checked against a second, independent source; the ones that could not be confirmed are not here, and the rate at which that happened is published below rather than hidden.

Read it as a ranking of busy places before you read it as a ranking of dangerous ones. Nothing here is adjusted for traffic volume or population, and nothing here says anything about any individual claim.

The hundred busiest, statewide

Every junction below recorded at least 36 crashes across the two years. The complete list for any one place is on its own page — by city or by county.

The 100 junctions with the most reported crashes, 2023–2024
# Junction City County Crashes Injured Killed
1 Sierra Av & Valley Bl Fontana San Bernardino 124 25 2
2 Sierra Av & Slover Av Fontana San Bernardino 88 23 0
3 Riverside Ave & Valley Blvd Rialto San Bernardino 74 16 0
4 Cherry Av & Slover Av Fontana San Bernardino 72 20 0
5 1ST Street & Fairview Street Santa Ana Orange 68 54 2
6 Marygold Av & Sierra Av Fontana San Bernardino 60 22 0
7 1ST Street & Harbor Boulevard Santa Ana Orange 59 41 0
8 Bristol Street & Memory Lane Santa Ana Orange 59 41 0
9 Hammer Ln & Kelley Dr Stockton San Joaquin 59 19 0
10 Firestone Blvd & Garfield Av South Gate Los Angeles 58 24 0
11 Citrus Av & Foothill Bl Fontana San Bernardino 57 24 0
12 Firestone Bl & Lakewood Bl Downey Los Angeles 53 55 1
13 Ball Road & Brookhurst Street Anaheim Orange 52 55 0
14 Antelope Rd & Sunrise Blvd Citrus Heights Sacramento 51 27 0
15 Blaine St & Iowa Ave Riverside Riverside 51 27 0
16 17TH Street & Bristol Street Santa Ana Orange 51 25 0
17 Amargosa Rd & Bear Valley Rd Victorville San Bernardino 51 20 0
18 Bristol Street & Warner Avenue Santa Ana Orange 50 33 0
19 Cherry Av & Foothill Bl Fontana San Bernardino 50 13 0
20 San Bernardino Av & Sierra Av Fontana San Bernardino 49 22 1
21 Alessandro Blvd & Perris Blvd Moreno Valley Riverside 49 30 0
22 Main St & Mariposa Rd Hesperia San Bernardino 49 26 0
23 March Ln & Pershing Av Stockton San Joaquin 49 22 0
24 Bristol Street & Edinger Avenue Santa Ana Orange 48 33 0
25 Arrow Bl & Citrus Av Fontana San Bernardino 48 14 0
26 Dougherty Rd & Dublin Bl Dublin Alameda 48 12 0
27 Cherry Av & Valley Bl Fontana San Bernardino 47 7 0
28 Adams Ave & Brookhurst St Huntington Beach Orange 46 47 0
29 Del Amo Bl & Paramount Bl Lakewood Los Angeles 46 25 0
30 Bristol Street & Mcfadden Avenue Santa Ana Orange 46 23 0
31 Escondido Av & Main St Hesperia San Bernardino 46 21 0
32 Auburn Blvd & Greenback Ln Citrus Heights Sacramento 46 19 0
33 Fruitridge Rd & Stockton Blvd Sacramento Sacramento 45 45 0
34 Jefferson Av & Winchester Rd Temecula Riverside 45 29 0
35 Arlington Ave & Van Buren Blvd Riverside Riverside 45 28 0
36 Harbor Boulevard & Mcfadden Avenue Santa Ana Orange 44 23 0
37 Hammer Ln & Lower Sacramento Rd Stockton San Joaquin 44 23 0
38 Rosecrans Av & Studebaker Rd Norwalk Los Angeles 44 21 0
39 223RD St & Wilmington Av Carson Los Angeles 44 12 0
40 Foothill Bl & Sierra Av Fontana San Bernardino 43 11 1
41 Center Pkwy & Mack Rd Sacramento Sacramento 43 47 0
42 Perris Blvd & Sunnymead Blvd Moreno Valley Riverside 43 39 0
43 1ST Street & Bristol Street Santa Ana Orange 43 31 0
44 San Vicente Bl & Santa Monica Bl West Hollywood Los Angeles 43 23 0
45 1ST Street & Grand Avenue Santa Ana Orange 43 20 0
46 Artesia Bl & Lakewood Bl Bellflower Los Angeles 43 15 0
47 Garden Grove Bl & Harbor Bl Garden Grove Orange 43 15 0
48 Citrus Av & Valley Bl Fontana San Bernardino 43 12 0
49 Rosemead Bl & Washington Bl Pico Rivera Los Angeles 42 11 1
50 Cirby Wy & Riverside Av Roseville Placer 42 35 0
51 Hammer Ln & Holman Rd Stockton San Joaquin 42 34 0
52 Greenback Ln & Sunrise Blvd Citrus Heights Sacramento 42 22 0
53 Harbor Bl & Trask Av Garden Grove Orange 42 12 0
54 Passons Bl & Slauson Av Pico Rivera Los Angeles 41 22 2
55 Margarita Rd & Winchester Rd Temecula Riverside 41 35 1
56 Florin Rd & Freeport Blvd Sacramento Sacramento 41 37 0
57 17TH Street & Grand Avenue Santa Ana Orange 41 30 0
58 Goldenwest St & Warner Ave Huntington Beach Orange 41 28 0
59 Magnolia Ave & Tyler St Riverside Riverside 41 23 0
60 Greenback Ln & San Juan Ave Citrus Heights Sacramento 41 21 0
61 Artesia Bl & Downey Av Bellflower Los Angeles 40 27 0
62 Jurupa Ave & Van Buren Blvd Riverside Riverside 40 22 0
63 Garfield Av & Telegraph Rd Commerce Los Angeles 40 15 0
64 Paramount Bl & Washington Bl Pico Rivera Los Angeles 40 15 0
65 Merrill Ave & Riverside Ave Rialto San Bernardino 40 7 0
66 Winchester Rd & Ynez Rd Temecula Riverside 39 32 1
67 Ball Road & Beach Boulevard Anaheim Orange 39 32 0
68 1ST Street & Main Street Santa Ana Orange 39 24 0
69 Bristol Street & Segerstrom Avenue Santa Ana Orange 39 19 0
70 Amar Rd & Azusa Av West Covina Los Angeles 39 19 0
71 Mitchell Rd & Whitmore Ave Ceres Stanislaus 39 17 0
72 Easton St & Riverside Ave Rialto San Bernardino 39 9 0
73 Mission Bl & Rubidoux Bl Jurupa Valley Riverside 38 25 1
74 Calvine Rd & Elk Grove Florin Rd Elk Grove Sacramento 38 29 0
75 Edinger Avenue & Fairview Street Santa Ana Orange 38 20 0
76 Pershing Av & Rosemarie Ln Stockton San Joaquin 38 18 0
77 Market St & Willow Pass Rd Concord Contra Costa 38 13 0
78 March Ln & Pacific Av Stockton San Joaquin 38 12 0
79 Robertson Bl & Santa Monica Bl West Hollywood Los Angeles 38 12 0
80 Airport Wy & Martin Luther King Bl Stockton San Joaquin 38 11 0
81 College Bl & Oceanside Bl Oceanside San Diego 37 48 1
82 Ball Road & Harbor Boulevard Anaheim Orange 37 40 1
83 17TH Street & Tustin Avenue Santa Ana Orange 37 36 1
84 Alondra Bl & Garfield Av Paramount Los Angeles 37 27 0
85 Paramount Bl & Rosecrans Av Paramount Los Angeles 37 27 0
86 1ST Street & Euclid Street Santa Ana Orange 37 26 0
87 Clay St & Van Buren Bl Jurupa Valley Riverside 37 25 0
88 Fred Waring Dr & Monterey Ave Palm Desert Riverside 37 17 0
89 Paramount Bl & Whittier Bl Pico Rivera Los Angeles 37 16 0
90 Bruceville Rd & Cosumnes River Blvd Sacramento Sacramento 36 35 0
91 Cherry Av & Willow Signal Hill Los Angeles 36 33 0
92 Bellflower Bl & Rosecrans Av Bellflower Los Angeles 36 28 0
93 Atlantic Av & E Artesia Bl Long Beach Los Angeles 36 24 0
94 Alondra Bl & Woodruff Av Bellflower Los Angeles 36 21 0
95 Bouquet Canyon Rd & Newhall Ranch Rd Santa Clarita Los Angeles 36 20 0
96 Fairview Street & Mcfadden Avenue Santa Ana Orange 36 17 0
97 Azusa Av & Gale Av City Of Industry Los Angeles 36 14 0
98 Del Amo Bl & Woodruff Av Lakewood Los Angeles 36 14 0
99 Fresno St & Shaw Ave Fresno Fresno 36 12 0
100 Rosemead Bl & Whittier Bl Pico Rivera Los Angeles 36 8 0

City pages

The full confirmed list for each city with at least 10 confirmed junctions, and that city's own confirmation rate. Cities below that appear in the ranking above and on their county page, but a page of three rows is not a ranking.

Every county

How these locations were established

The coordinates are geocoded, not surveyed. A crash report names a primary road, the nearest crossed road, and a city. It does not carry a verified junction location. Turning those names into a point on a map is an inference, and inferences can be wrong.

So each one has to survive three checks before it appears here:

  1. The US Census geocoder must return a point for the two road names in that city.
  2. The address it echoes back must name the same city and both roads. This catches the failure where a geocoder quietly substitutes a similar name somewhere else — one request for a Berkeley junction came back as a street in Thermal, 746 kilometres away.
  3. A second, independent source must agree to within 50 metres — either the coordinate carried on the crash records or, where those are absent, an OpenStreetMap-derived geocoder. Where the two disagree, the junction is dropped. It is never averaged, and never settled in favour of whichever source has more records behind it.

That rule is not caution for its own sake. In Moreno Valley, 48 crash records agreed on a coordinate 3.3 kilometres from the real junction, with no internal disagreement to give the error away. In San Jose, the crash-record coordinates are displaced by roughly 33 kilometres. Both would have looked entirely solid to anyone trusting a single source.

What was rejected

Outcome of every junction attempted, 2023–2024
OutcomeJunctionsShare
Attempted3,047100%
Published2,37078%
Rejected — the two sources disagreed421%
Rejected — no location found at all33311%
Rejected — the returned address did not match29010%
Rejected — no second source available120%

Where the two sources did agree, they agreed closely: the median gap is 9 metres and nine in ten are within 27 metres. Separately, 147,064 crash records in these cities were set aside before any of this began because they name a freeway, ramp, or state route.

How precise these counts are

Not very, at the bottom of the table. Crash counts at a single junction behave like any other count of rare events: a junction whose true rate is ten crashes a year will record somewhere between about four and sixteen in a given two-year window without anything changing on the ground.

So a difference of two or three crashes between neighbouring rows is not a difference at all. The junctions at the top of this page are far enough apart to mean something; two junctions separated by a single crash are, for practical purposes, tied.

Coverage by city

How many junctions were confirmed in each city, out of those attempted. A low rate means the sources disagreed there, not that the city is safe. Ontario, San Jose, Santa Rosa and Redding produced nothing that could be confirmed and do not appear in the ranking at all.

Confirmed junctions by city
CityConfirmedAttemptedRate
Sacramento 40 50 80%
Fresno 41 50 82%
Los Angeles 44 50 88%
Bakersfield 43 50 86%
Anaheim 46 50 92%
Moreno Valley 48 50 96%
Modesto 40 50 80%
Riverside 42 50 84%
Long Beach 40 50 80%
Stockton 37 50 74%
Fontana 47 50 94%
San Francisco 50 50 100%
Rialto 32 50 64%
Santa Ana 47 50 94%
Carson 37 50 74%
Oakland 45 50 90%
Fullerton 41 46 89%
Pomona 43 44 98%
Fairfield 19 44 43%
Hesperia 36 44 82%
Garden Grove 38 44 86%
Concord 38 42 90%
West Covina 33 42 79%
Jurupa Valley 28 42 67%
Bellflower 41 42 98%
Santa Clarita 23 42 55%
Escondido 16 40 40%
Chula Vista 25 39 64%
Roseville 25 37 68%
Lakewood 28 37 76%
West Hollywood 35 36 97%
Norwalk 22 35 63%
Ontario 23 34 68%
Corona 19 33 58%
South Gate 29 33 88%
Rancho Cucamonga 25 33 76%
Lancaster 26 31 84%
Oceanside 13 31 42%
Thousand Oaks 21 30 70%
Huntington Beach 30 30 100%
Victorville 22 30 73%
Downey 27 30 90%
Inglewood 27 29 93%
Santa Fe Springs 27 29 93%
Costa Mesa 21 29 72%
Camarillo 16 28 57%
Palmdale 23 28 82%
Pico Rivera 25 27 93%
Santa Clara 16 26 62%
Paramount 21 26 81%
Citrus Heights 22 25 88%
Tulare 11 25 44%
Santa Monica 22 25 88%
Commerce 22 25 88%
Compton 23 25 92%
Temecula 15 22 68%
Vacaville 14 22 64%
Livermore 7 21 33%
Orange 18 21 86%
Richmond 17 21 81%
Murrieta 13 21 62%
Rancho Cordova 18 21 86%
Glendale 18 21 86%
Huntington Park 20 21 95%
Elk Grove 17 21 81%
Simi Valley 16 20 80%
San Diego 17 20 85%
Palm Desert 16 20 80%
Paso Robles 12 20 60%
San Jose 12 20 60%
Ventura 14 20 70%
Ceres 8 19 42%
Folsom 15 18 83%
Whittier 16 18 89%
Montclair 14 18 78%
Montebello 16 17 94%
Carlsbad 11 17 65%
Hawthorne 17 17 100%
Alameda 13 17 76%
Cerritos 10 16 63%
Upland 15 16 94%
Brea 8 15 53%
Tustin 10 15 67%
Vernon 12 15 80%
San Jacinto 11 14 79%
San Bernardino 6 14 43%
Rosemead 14 14 100%
Clovis 10 14 71%
Westminster 12 14 86%
City Of Industry 12 14 86%
Highland 9 14 64%
Yuba City 2 14 14%
Signal Hill 5 13 38%
Tracy 7 13 54%
Bell Gardens 13 13 100%
La Quinta 5 12 42%
Sunnyvale 9 12 75%
Milpitas 9 12 75%
Watsonville 10 12 83%
Apple Valley 6 12 50%
Pasadena 11 12 92%
La Habra 12 12 100%
Perris 4 11 36%
El Monte 11 11 100%
Monterey Park 10 11 91%
Diamond Bar 9 11 82%
Menifee 8 10 80%
Placentia 10 10 100%
Palm Springs 7 10 70%
Maywood 10 10 100%
Burbank 10 10 100%
Rocklin 7 10 70%
Dublin 8 10 80%
Redlands 6 10 60%
Baldwin Park 10 10 100%
Stanton 7 10 70%

What this ranking does not tell you

Sources: California Crash Reporting System (CCRS), California Highway Patrol; locations from the US Census Geocoder, corroborated against the crash records' own coordinates or Photon (OpenStreetMap). Full method and limitations: methodology.

Common questions

Is this a list of the most dangerous intersections in California?
No. It ranks junctions by how many crashes were reported at them, and busy roads produce more crashes than quiet ones. Nothing here is adjusted for traffic volume or population, so a junction near the top is carrying a lot of traffic at least as much as it is carrying risk.
How were the locations worked out?
They were geocoded, not surveyed. The crash record names two roads and a city; the coordinates come from the US Census geocoder, and each is published only if a second, independent source agrees to within 50 metres. Where the two disagree the junction is dropped rather than guessed at.
How precise are these counts?
Less than they look. A junction that averages ten crashes a year will record roughly four to sixteen in any given two-year window purely by chance. Treat a gap of a few crashes between neighbouring rows as no gap at all; only large differences mean anything.
Why is my city missing, or thinner than I expected?
A junction only appears if two independent sources agree on where it is. In some cities the coordinates carried on the crash records are systematically wrong — in San Jose they are displaced by about 33 kilometres — so nothing there could be confirmed. Some cities also record cross streets so precisely that crashes never concentrate at a named junction, which is a reporting difference rather than a measure of safety.
Why are there no freeway junctions?
They are excluded deliberately. A freeway pairing gathers crashes along a length of road rather than at a point, so a single coordinate would misrepresent it, and every geocoder tested resolved at most one in fifteen of them correctly.
Does a crash at one of these junctions affect my claim?
No. How often a location appears in a statewide table has no bearing on fault, insurance, or outcome in an individual crash. That is decided on the evidence in that case, not on a ranking.