Northeast Ohio drivers hit people walking or biking often enough that the region's own transportation agencies keep tracking the same handful of streets year after year. If you were just struck on one of them, in Cleveland, Akron, Canton, or anywhere between, the data below explains why that corner or that stretch of road keeps showing up in the reports.
Three counties, one bad habit
In 2025, Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers logged 24,156 crashes in Cuyahoga County alone: 75 fatal, 6,651 with injuries, and 17,430 property-damage-only.1 Summit County, home to Akron, recorded 13,186 crashes with 31 deaths, and Stark County, home to Canton, recorded 8,569 crashes with 31 deaths of its own.23 Statewide, Ohio logged 264,954 crashes in 2025.4 None of those totals separate out pedestrians and cyclists specifically, but every county sheet carries the same warning line: slow down and give extra room "in areas with heavy pedestrian or bicycle activity, especially at crosswalks and intersections."1
Cleveland's same eight corridors, five years running
Cleveland's 2022 Vision Zero Action Plan pulled five years of crash data, 2016 through 2020, and checked which roadway segments landed on the city's worst-for-injury list every single year. Eight did: St. Clair Avenue between East 99th and East 118th streets, West 25th Street between Meyer Avenue and the railroad bridge, East 93rd Street between Prince and Easton avenues, Superior Avenue between East 58th and East 108th streets, Miles Avenue between East 119th and East 144th streets, Kinsman Road between East 132nd Street and Menlo Road, East 131st Street between Farringdon and Hoy avenues, and Broadway between Aetna Road and Booth Avenue.5 Those repeat corridors cover 25 miles of city street and now account for roughly a quarter of all of Cleveland's fatal and serious crashes citywide (24.3%), more than double the 11.5% share those same corridors represented a decade earlier.5
The Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA), which plans transportation safety for Cuyahoga, Lake, Geauga, Lorain, and Medina counties, separately named St. Clair Avenue, West 25th Street between Clark and Lorain avenues, Superior Avenue between East 108th Street and Hayden Avenue, and East 93rd Street between Prince and Bessemer avenues among its ten most dangerous regional corridors, alongside West 117th Street, Lorain Road in North Olmsted, Cedar Road through Cleveland Heights and University Heights, Mentor Avenue in Lake County, and Dille and Nottingham roads in Euclid.6 NOACA's SAVE plan, which set a goal of cutting serious injuries and deaths in half by 2040, found the five-county region logged 50,300 crashes in 2019 alone, with fatalities climbing from 112 to 134 and serious-injury crashes from 1,034 to 1,337 compared to the year before.6
One corridor is already getting rebuilt because of this data. Wade Park Avenue between East 66th and East 118th streets saw 82 crashes from 2021 through 2025, more than three-quarters of them at intersections, and 91% of drivers were clocked exceeding the 25 mph limit on parts of the corridor.7 The city's planned fix includes separated bike lanes, a full roundabout at Ansel Road, and mini-roundabouts at five more cross streets, with construction expected to start in 2027.7
Akron's Market Street corridor keeps showing up
The Akron Metropolitan Area Transportation Study (AMATS), which covers Summit and Portage counties plus a slice of Wayne County, counted 448 pedestrian-related crashes and 34 pedestrian deaths between 2022 and 2024, plus a steady run of bicycle crashes that killed two more people in 2024 alone.8 Nearly two-thirds of those pedestrian crashes happened away from any intersection, mid-block, and both pedestrian and bicycle crashes cluster hardest in the late afternoon and early evening, right as dusk cuts visibility.8
Two intersections along the Market Street corridor (State Route 18) turn up by name in AMATS's high-crash rankings with recorded pedestrian involvement: West Market Street at Rhodes Avenue and East Market Street at Union Street, each logging three pedestrian-related crashes in the three-year window.8 West Market Street at Maple Street shows both a bicycle- and a pedestrian-related crash on the books, and Riverview Road at Ira Road in Cuyahoga Falls, the AMATS region's second-highest-ranked intersection overall, includes a bicycle crash too.8 On the roadway-segment side, Manchester Road (State Route 93) between Robinson Avenue and Carnegie Avenue logged four pedestrian-related crashes over the same three years and sits on the region's Safe Streets for All High Injury Network, a federally funded roadway safety initiative.8
Canton and Stark County's rural intersection problem
Stark County's own transportation study currently ranks its most dangerous intersection as State Route 173 and Paris Avenue in rural Marlboro Township, where 22 crashes between 2022 and 2024, mostly failure-to-yield collisions, are pushing the Ohio Department of Transportation to build a roundabout, tentatively set for 2028 or 2029.9 Walnut Avenue and 15th Street Northeast in Canton ranks second; the city's traffic engineers suspect drivers are missing a stop sign that's hard to see there. Dressler Road at Everhard Road, a six-lane signalized intersection near several shopping centers, ranks third, with 20 crashes logged in 2024 alone.9 Stark County as a whole recorded 31 traffic deaths and 8,569 total crashes in 2025, with US-62, Interstate 77, and State Route 172 carrying the heaviest crash counts of any routes in the county.3
What Ohio law gives pedestrians and cyclists
Ohio Revised Code 4511.46 requires a driver to yield, slowing or stopping if necessary, to a pedestrian already in a crosswalk on the driver's half of the road, or approaching closely enough from the other half to be in danger.10 It also bars a pedestrian from suddenly stepping off a curb into a car that's too close to stop, and it bars drivers from passing a vehicle that has stopped for a pedestrian at a crosswalk.10 Ohio Revised Code 4511.27 has required drivers to leave at least three feet of space when passing a bicyclist since House Bill 154 took effect in March 2017.11 Both statutes carry only a minor misdemeanor penalty on their own, but a violation of either one is strong evidence in a civil injury claim, since it spells out exactly what the driver was supposed to do and didn't.
If you were just hit
None of the streets above should be read as proof of fault just because they made a list. Every crash still turns on what actually happened at that specific intersection or mid-block crossing, on that specific day. If you're trying to figure out what your case is worth or who's responsible, an attorney who works these corridors regularly can pull the same crash history used here and match it against your own accident report. You can find one through thatcarhitme.com's legal directory.
This is general information, not legal advice.
Sources
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Ohio State Highway Patrol, "2025 Cuyahoga County Traffic Crashes Fast Facts," https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/otso.ohio.gov/DataSheets/Cuyahoga.pdf
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Ohio State Highway Patrol, "2025 Summit County Traffic Crashes Fast Facts," https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/otso.ohio.gov/DataSheets/Summit.pdf
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Ohio State Highway Patrol, "2025 Stark County Traffic Crashes Fast Facts," https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/otso.ohio.gov/DataSheets/Stark.pdf
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ThatCarHitMe.com, "Ohio (Statewide) Crash Report, 2025," https://thatcarhitme.com/crash-data/ohio/statewide/2025-annual-report
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City of Cleveland, "Cleveland Vision Zero Action Plan, Appendix C: Existing Conditions Analysis" (August 2022), https://www.clevelandohio.gov/sites/clevelandohio/files/transportation/vision-zero/Cleveland-Vision-Zero-Appendix-C-Existing-Conditions-Analysis.pdf
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News 5 Cleveland, "Agency identifies Northeast Ohio's 10 most dangerous traffic corridors but finds driver actions cause most crashes," https://www.news5cleveland.com/traffic/traffic-news/agency-identifies-northeast-ohios-10-most-dangerous-traffic-corridors-but-finds-driver-actions-cause-most-crashes
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City of Cleveland, "Wade Park Avenue," https://www.clevelandohio.gov/transportation-mobility/wade-park
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Akron Metropolitan Area Transportation Study, "2022-2024 Annual Crash Report" (March 2026), https://www.amatsplanning.org/sites/default/files/docs/reports/DRAFT%202022-2024%20Annual%20Crash%20Report.pdf
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News 5 Cleveland, "Stark County's most dangerous intersections ranked," https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/stark-countys-most-dangerous-intersections-ranked
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Ohio Laws, "Section 4511.46 - Right-of-way of pedestrian within crosswalk," https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-4511.46
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Ohio Laws, "Section 4511.27 - Overtaking and passing of vehicles proceeding in the same direction," https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-4511.27