Poynter & Bucheri, an Indianapolis injury law firm, analyzed all 111,462 crashes the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department reported from 2021 through 2025 on the City of Indianapolis Vision Zero crash map, and W. 38th St. & Moller Rd. came out No. 1, with 335 crashes within about 250 feet in five years. Which corner in town has the most crashes? We stopped guessing and looked it up.
Here's how: we counted how many crashes landed within about 75 meters (roughly 250 feet) of each intersection.
What are the key findings?
- From 2021 through 2025, IMPD reported 111,462 crashes on the City of Indianapolis Vision Zero crash map.
- W. 38th St. & Moller Rd. had the most IMPD-reported crashes of any Indianapolis intersection from 2021 through 2025: 335 within about 250 feet, followed by W. 56th St. & Georgetown Rd. (313) and Girls School Rd. & Rockville Rd. (278).
- Counting interstate ramps, the I-465 interchange at 38th Street had 367 IMPD-reported crashes nearby from 2021 through 2025, more than any single Indianapolis intersection.
- At 21 of the 25 Indianapolis intersections with the most IMPD-reported crashes, the most common crash type was a rear-end collision.
- Ranked by crashes with injuries (through May 2025, because the Vision Zero layer stops recording injuries after May 2025), the leaders were W. 38th St. & Moller Rd. (62), W. 56th St. & Georgetown Rd. (56) and Girls School Rd. & Rockville Rd. (52).
- IMPD-reported crashes in the Vision Zero layer fell every year, from 26,150 in 2021 to 17,839 in 2025. The data can't show how much of that drop is safer roads and how much is changes in reporting.
- In 2023, Marion County had 36,662 crashes and 129 fatal crashes, the most of any Indiana county, according to Indiana Crash Facts 2023 (Table 8.1).
Which Indianapolis intersections have the most crashes?
Table 1. The 10 Indianapolis intersections with the most IMPD-reported crashes within about 75 meters (250 feet), 2021-2025. Source: City of Indianapolis DPW Vision Zero crash layer; analysis by Poynter & Bucheri. Injury column covers January 2021 through May 2025 only.
| Rank | Intersection | Crashes | Crashes with injuries (through May 2025) | Crashes with a death |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | W. 38th St. & Moller Rd. | 335 | 62 | 1 |
| 2 | W. 56th St. & Georgetown Rd. | 313 | 56 | 0 |
| 3 | Girls School Rd. & Rockville Rd. | 278 | 52 | 0 |
| 4 | Keystone Ave. / Fall Creek Pkwy. / Binford Blvd. / Allisonville Rd. junction | 249 | 49 | 0 |
| 5 | East St. & Thompson Rd. | 248 | 30 | 0 |
| 6 | College Ave. & Washington St. | 243 | 22 | 0 |
| 7 | Michigan Rd. & W. 86th St. | 243 | 28 | 0 |
| 8 | Lafayette Rd. / Pike Plaza Rd. / Georgetown Rd. | 241 | 42 | 2 |
| 9 | Michigan Rd. & W. 79th St. | 239 | 34 | 1 |
| 10 | W. 38th St. & Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. St. | 237 | 32 | 2 |
The full top 25 is in Table 5 near the bottom of this page, and on the map.
Why does the northwest side have so many crash hot spots?
Five of the top 10 sit in IMPD's Northwest District, along 38th Street, Lafayette Road, Georgetown Road and Michigan Road: W. 38th St. & Moller Rd., W. 56th St. & Georgetown Rd., Michigan Rd. & W. 86th St., Lafayette Rd. / Pike Plaza Rd. / Georgetown Rd., and Michigan Rd. & W. 79th St. Many of these are wide, multi-lane roads lined with shopping centers, with drivers turning in and out of lots all day. This data doesn't show why crashes cluster there. Add the I-465 interchange at 38th Street, and the 38th Street stretch between I-465 and Lafayette Road is the busiest crash area in our data.
What kind of crash is most common at the busiest intersections?
At 21 of the top 25, the most common crash type was a rear-end collision. At East Street and Thompson Road, 122 of the 248 crashes were rear-end crashes. That's the kind of crash where the insurance company still tries to say you stopped too short. Fault still depends on the facts, and Indiana's comparative fault law (IC 34-51-2-5 and 34-51-2-6) can cut what you recover if you're found partly at fault, and bars recovery if you're found more than 50% at fault.
Which Indianapolis intersections have the most injury crashes?
A note on the injury counts. The Vision Zero layer we used stops recording injuries partway through 2025. It shows about 99 injury crashes in May 2025 and none at all from June through December 2025, even though crash records and deaths keep coming in. So the injury columns and the injury ranking cover January 2021 through May 2025. They undercount 2025 by seven months. Don't read them as a full five years of injuries. Total crash counts, deaths and the top-10 ranking by crashes aren't affected.
Ranked by crashes with at least one injury (through May 2025), the list shifts a little. W. 38th St. & Moller Rd. (62), W. 56th St. & Georgetown Rd. (56) and Girls School Rd. & Rockville Rd. (52) still lead. Then come the Keystone / Fall Creek / Binford / Allisonville junction (49), Lafayette / Pike Plaza / Georgetown (42), Georgetown & 71st (41), and three corners with 38 each: College & 30th, Lafayette & 34th, and Emerson & 30th.
Which interstate interchanges have the most IMPD-reported crashes?
We kept the interstate ramps in a separate list, because most crashes on the interstates themselves are worked by the Indiana State Police, not IMPD, so they mostly aren't in this data.
Table 3. Indianapolis interstate interchanges with the most IMPD-reported crashes nearby, 2021-2025.
| Rank | Interchange | Crashes, 2021-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | I-465 at 38th St. | 367 |
| 2 | I-65 at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. St./Oscar Robertson Blvd. | 207 |
| 3 | I-465 at Washington St. | 189 |
| 4 | I-69 at Binford Blvd. | 180 |
| 5 | I-69 at Shadeland Ave. | 180 |
Is there an official list of dangerous intersections in Indianapolis?
There's no public, statewide file that lets anyone rank every intersection in Indiana. Around Indianapolis, the regional planning agency, the Indianapolis MPO (IMPO), does publish official lists: a 78 High Crash Intersection List from its 2019 Safety Study, the high-crash intersections it studied with road safety audits, and a High Injury Network for 2026. Those lists are built for safety studies and focus on serious crashes. They won't match our simple count of every crash within about 250 feet.
Which Indiana counties have the most crashes?
What the state does publish is county totals. In 2023, Indiana had 198,215 county-identified crashes and 871 fatal crashes, according to Indiana Crash Facts 2023 from the IU Public Policy Institute and the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute (Table 8.1, pp. 131-133). The statewide total is 198,247, which includes 32 crashes with no county listed (Table 2.1, p. 19).
Table 4. Indiana counties with the most crashes, 2023. Source: Indiana Crash Facts 2023, Table 8.1 (county-identified crashes).
| County | Crashes, 2023 | Fatal crashes, 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| Marion | 36,662 | 129 |
| Lake | 16,366 | 56 |
| Allen | 12,698 | 40 |
| Hamilton | 8,246 | 24 |
| St. Joseph | 7,459 | 28 |
| Tippecanoe | 6,434 | 21 |
| Elkhart | 6,056 | 18 |
| Vanderburgh | 5,612 | 23 |
| Hendricks | 4,924 | 13 |
| Porter | 4,302 | 16 |
Big counties have more crashes because they have more people and more driving. Adjusted for miles driven, the highest 2023 rates were in Tippecanoe (366.2 crashes per 100 million vehicle miles), Ohio (329.3) and Floyd (302.9) counties (Crash Facts 2023, p. 127 and Map 8.1, p. 134). Those rates compare all reported crashes in 2023 with INDOT's 2022 county miles-driven figures, the latest the report used.
What are the full top 25 intersections?
Table 5. Top 25 Indianapolis intersections by IMPD-reported crashes, 2021-2025. Injury column covers January 2021 through May 2025 only.
| Rank | Intersection | Crashes | Crashes with injuries (through May 2025) | Crashes with a death |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | W. 38th St. & Moller Rd. | 335 | 62 | 1 |
| 2 | W. 56th St. & Georgetown Rd. | 313 | 56 | 0 |
| 3 | Girls School Rd. & Rockville Rd. | 278 | 52 | 0 |
| 4 | Keystone Ave. / Fall Creek Pkwy. / Binford Blvd. / Allisonville Rd. junction | 249 | 49 | 0 |
| 5 | East St. & Thompson Rd. | 248 | 30 | 0 |
| 6 | College Ave. & Washington St. | 243 | 22 | 0 |
| 7 | Michigan Rd. & W. 86th St. | 243 | 28 | 0 |
| 8 | Lafayette Rd. / Pike Plaza Rd. / Georgetown Rd. | 241 | 42 | 2 |
| 9 | Michigan Rd. & W. 79th St. | 239 | 34 | 1 |
| 10 | W. 38th St. & Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. St. | 237 | 32 | 2 |
| 11 | Georgetown Rd. & 71st St. | 232 | 41 | 2 |
| 12 | Lafayette Rd. & 38th St. | 228 | 24 | 0 |
| 13 | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. St. & 10th St. | 226 | 24 | 0 |
| 14 | Washington St. & Mitthoefer Rd. | 225 | 31 | 0 |
| 15 | 56th St. & Lafayette Rd. | 223 | 30 | 2 |
| 16 | 21st St. & Post Rd. | 223 | 33 | 0 |
| 17 | 34th St. & High School Rd. | 223 | 28 | 0 |
| 18 | Kentucky Ave. & High School Rd. | 209 | 19 | 0 |
| 19 | 82nd St. & Allisonville Rd. | 206 | 17 | 1 |
| 20 | 16th St. & Tibbs Ave. | 197 | 30 | 0 |
| 21 | 21st St. & Shadeland Ave. | 196 | 35 | 1 |
| 22 | Stop 11 Rd. & Madison Ave. | 191 | 33 | 0 |
| 23 | 30th St. & Lafayette Rd. / Guion Rd. | 187 | 31 | 0 |
| 24 | Southport Rd. & Emerson Ave. | 183 | 12 | 0 |
| 25 | Keystone Ave. & 62nd St. / Broad Ripple Ave. | 183 | 19 | 0 |
What are the limits of this crash study?
- It's IMPD crashes only. Crashes worked by the State Police, the Marion County Sheriff, or the police in Lawrence, Speedway and Beech Grove aren't in the Vision Zero layer we used. (The city has a separate, multi-agency Crash_Public layer that includes those agencies; we didn't use it for this study.) Every record in our layer is listed as an IMPD crash, though a few hundred points from 2021-2025 are tagged to the Meridian Hills/Williams Creek (172) and Southport (82) police jurisdictions. In 2023 the Vision Zero layer had 22,467 crashes, against 36,662 for all of Marion County in the state report.
- A crash "at" an intersection here means within about 250 feet of its center. That picks up driveways and turn lanes near the corner.
- It counts crashes, not risk. We don't have traffic counts for every corner, so a busy intersection will rank higher than a quiet one with a worse rate.
- Counts fell every year, from 26,150 in 2021 to 17,839 in 2025. We can't tell from this data how much of that is safer roads and how much is changes in reporting.
- ARIES records get corrected over time, so the numbers may shift a little if you run this again later.
- Injury counts cover January 2021 through May 2025 only (see the note above).
How did we find the crash hot spots?
- Data. We downloaded every crash point for 2021-2025 from the City of Indianapolis Department of Public Works "VZ Crash Public" map layer, which is built from officer crash reports in ARIES, the state crash system run by the Indiana State Police. We used five full calendar years and left 2026 out because the year isn't over.
- Finding hot spots. For each crash, we counted the crashes within 75 meters. We took the densest spot, recorded it, removed those crashes so nothing got counted twice, and repeated that 80 times.
- Naming them. We matched each hot spot to the city's street centerline map (streets within 45 meters). If an interstate or ramp was within 45 meters, we put the spot in the interchange list.
- Statewide. County figures come straight from Table 8.1 of Indiana Crash Facts 2023.
Data downloaded Oct. 29, 2026. Download the data: top 25 intersections, top intersections by injury crashes, through May 2025, interchanges and Indiana counties, 2023.
What should you do if you were hurt at one of these corners?
First, get checked by a doctor. Then get the crash report, and take pictures of the scene if you can. If you have questions about your claim, call Poynter & Bucheri at (317) 780-8000. The consultation is free, and you don't have to come to the office: we can talk by phone or video, and paperwork can be signed electronically. Some later steps in a case, like a deposition, a medical exam or a court date, may need you in person, and we'll tell you ahead of time if one comes up. You can also check your filing deadline or read about car accident cases.
Frequently asked questions
What Indianapolis intersection had the most crashes from 2021 to 2025? In IMPD crash data on the City of Indianapolis Vision Zero crash map for 2021-2025, W. 38th St. & Moller Rd. had the most reported crashes, 335 within about 250 feet. That counts crashes, not risk per car.
How many crashes did IMPD report in Indianapolis each year? IMPD-reported crashes on the city's Vision Zero map fell from 26,150 in 2021 to 17,839 in 2025. That's IMPD only, not State Police or other agencies.
Which Indianapolis intersection had the most injury crashes? W. 38th St. & Moller Rd., with 62 injury crashes from January 2021 through May 2025. The Vision Zero layer stops recording injuries after May 2025, so 2025 injuries are undercounted.
Which Indiana county had the most crashes in 2023? Marion County, with 36,662 crashes and 129 fatal crashes in 2023, according to Indiana Crash Facts 2023 (Table 8.1).
How should this study be cited?
Poynter & Bucheri, LLC, "Indianapolis Intersections With the Most Crashes, 2021-2025," indianaaccidents.com, October 30, 2026. Journalists may use the findings, tables and map with a link to this page. The data files, map and charts are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/): you may reuse them with credit to Poynter & Bucheri and a link back to this study. The article text and the firm's name and logo remain all rights reserved, and are not covered by that license. Media contact: (317) 780-8000, don@pb-law.com.