Thirty-five crashes on McKinney streets killed someone between 2020 and 2024, and 180 more left someone seriously hurt, according to the city's draft traffic safety plan. Most of those crashes happened on a small slice of the road network, and the plan names the corridors and intersections where the city wants to focus.
City engineers will walk the City Council through the final report of the Safe Streets McKinney Comprehensive Safety Action Plan at a work session Tuesday, Oct. 20, and ask for feedback before a vote planned for November. Under the city's federal grant agreement, the plan has to be adopted by Nov. 30.
Where the serious crashes cluster
The plan, prepared by consultant Fehr & Peers, analyzed 7,778 crashes inside city limits over the five years. It maps a "high injury network" of 42 corridor segments and 21 intersections. Those roads make up 3.6% of the city's street network but account for 63.3% of the crashes that killed or seriously injured someone, according to the staff presentation.
The highest-scoring corridor is South McDonald Street, which is State Highway 5, from Eldorado Parkway and Industrial Boulevard to Spur 399, where a TxDOT reconstruction is under construction. East Louisiana Street east of North Murray Street ranks next among corridors without a project listed.
Several segments of University Drive, U.S. 380, appear on the list, along with stretches of Eldorado Parkway, Virginia Parkway, Medical Center Drive and Redbud Boulevard.
At the top of the intersection list is University Drive at Community Avenue, where a city project to add capacity is under construction. The intersections of SH 5 with Stewart Road and with Eldorado Parkway and Industrial Boulevard follow; both are part of the TxDOT rebuild.
The report also singles out people outside cars. Pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcyclists were involved in fewer than 4% of all crashes combined but more than 40% of the fatal and serious-injury crashes. Motorcyclists alone were in 21% of the intersection-related ones.
When crashes are measured per 100,000 residents, McKinney has a lower rate than comparable Dallas-Fort Worth cities, the plan says, while warning that growth, including the expansion of McKinney National Airport, will add traffic.
