Number of tickets KC police issued went up in these ‘high crash’ areas in February
Kansas City police officers wrote more tickets in February over the previous month in five areas that made the list of the city’s highest crash locations, according to data released at the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners’ meeting Tuesday.
These are the following areas where the number of tickets increased in February over January: Interstate 70 and Interstate 435 (11 percent increase), 75th Street and Bruce Watkins Drive (19 percent), Bannister Road and Interstate 435 (33 percent), 55th Street and Bruce Watkins Drive (71 percent) and Front Street and Interstate 35 (45 percent).
According to the data, inattention and rear-end impact are listed as the leading cause of accidents in those spots.
So far in 2020, a total of 2,959 crashes have been reported citywide, according to police. During this time last year, there were 3,807.
A breakdown of the top 10 crash locations in Kansas City with the number of tickets written in those areas is listed below:
| Ranking | Division | Crash location | No. of tickets written in January | No. of tickets written in February |
| 1 | South Patrol | Interstate 435 and Holmes Road | 153 | 108 |
| 2 | East Patrol | Interstate 70 and Interstate 435 | 131 | 146 |
| 3 | Metro Patrol | 75th Street and Bruce Watkins Drive | 169 | 201 |
| 4 | South Patrol | Bannister Road and Interstate 435 | 136 | 181 |
| 5 | South Patrol | Interstate 470 and Blue Ridge Boulevard | 72 | 59 |
| 6 | Metro Patrol | 55th Street and Bruce Watkins Drive | 130 | 223 |
| 7 | East Patrol | Front Street and Interstate 435 | 131 | 77 |
| 8 | Central Patrol | Front Street and Interstate 35 | 40 | 58 |
| 9 | South Patrol | Red Bridge Road and U.S. 71 | 57 | 41 |
| 10 | South Patrol | Interstate 435 and Wornall Road | 100 | 90 |
