A report from the Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District says the city has eight of the 23 intersections in southeastern Massachusetts where accidents are most likely to occur as a result of drivers running red lights.
“It doesn’t surprise me,” said Fall River Director of Community Maintenance Kenneth Pacheco Thursday. “We’ve always had some dangerous intersections.
According to the report, issued this week, 28 percent of accidents at the intersection of Davol Street and President Avenue are caused by drivers running red lights.
“There is nothing planned,” Pacheco said of the eight city intersections where running red lights commonly causes accidents.
Intersections named in the report are  Bedford Street/Troy/Street/High Street, the intersection of Broadway and Columbia Street, Eastern Avenue and Bedford Street, Pleasant Street/County Street/Quarry Street, President Avenue and Davol Street, President Avenue and Elsbree Street, Robeson Street and Locust Street and Sullivan Drive and Third Street.
Pacheco said installing  so-called “red light [...]

Original post by Marc Munroe Dion