Seven Los Angeles schools ranked among the top 10 in California for the most dangerous elementary school zones. Sacramento didn't even crack the top 200.
The new study of the state's 486 elementary school zones looked at the riskiest routes to and from school in 2015 for students. The No. 1 most dangerous school was Jardin de la Infancia in Los Angeles. The intersections around the school recorded 271 car accidents, 72 pedestrian accidents, 54 bicycle accidents and a risk score of 129.80.
The weighted formula for a risk score was: Accident (1) + Pedestrian Accident (3) + Bicycle Accident (3). Pedestrian and bicycle collisions were weighed more heavily because those road users – especially when they are children – are much more vulnerable to injury and death than those in motor vehicles, according to the study.
The top 10 schools are below:
Twenty three of the top 25 schools are located in either Los Angeles or San Francisco and the other two are in Oakland and Long Beach.
You're probably wondering...where did Sacramento schools come in on these rankings.
Well, the first Sacramento sighting landed at No. 232 and that's where it stopped. Fortune Elementary School on Stockton Boulevard is the city's only sighting on the list having 151 car accidents, six pedestrian accidents and five bicycle accidents with a risk score of 36.80.
The averages for all schools combined were 133.01 car accidents, 14.22 pedestrian accidents, 10.83 bicycle accidents for a risk score of 41.64. So, though Sacramento's one school made the list, it was below the collected average.
Data visualization firm 1Point21 Interactive analyzed over 400,00 motor vehicle collision records from 2015 through the California Highway Patrol's SWITRS database comparing them to over 6,000 California elementary schools.
There were three sections of accidents with there being a total of 62,785 car accidents, 6,716 pedestrian accidents, 5,114 bicycle accidents within one-half mile of the 486 schools.
Panish Shea & Boyle law firm partnered with data visualization firm 1Point21 Interactive to help create the study.
