Michigan Roundabouts Have Caused More Accidents, but That’s Not Necessarily a Bad Thing

I love roundabouts, but there are many people in Michigan who wish they never had to drive through one again.

Get our free mobile app

Like them or not roundabouts have been great benefits to make driver's safer.

⬇️ The Most Dangerous Train Tracks In Grand Rapids ⬇️

Grand Rapids has several dozen roundabouts across the city and later this fall another one is planned to be installed at the intersection of Coit Avenue and Guild Street.

This is in part because of Hunter Hubers, who lives in the neighborhood.

Over the last four years, he has recorded 30 crashes in front of his home.

He decided that enough was enough and collected signatures from neighbors, which he then presented to the city, asking for some kind of solution.

For now, they've set up a temporary roundabout to study its effect on traffic.

Why Michigan Roundabouts Causing More Accidents Isn't A Bad Thing

According to Wood TV, In a 2023 study sponsored by the Michigan Department of Transportation, Michigan State University researchers looked at 18 roundabouts across the state that used to be intersections.

During the research, they found that there were more crashes than before, but it lowered the number of fatal and serious injury crashes.

Read More: Michigan Restaurants Guy Fieri Has Visited With The Food Network

Of course, nobody wants to see more car crashes, but if one more life is saved, I would argue that it's worth it.