A new intersection has the dubious honour of being the most dangerous in Ottawa and it's on the same stretch that consistently tallies the most crack-ups.

Hunt Club Rd. and Woodroffe Ave. finished at the top of the charts for the most collisions at a major intersection in Ottawa in 2013. There were 45 crashes, eight more than the second-place intersection, Hunt Club Rd. and Merivale Rd.

Both of those intersections are in the Knoxdale-Merivale ward represented by Coun. Keith Egli.

The intersection at Hunt Club and Woodroffe, like the intersection at Merivale, is extremely busy, Egli noted.

"We never want to have any accidents, but when you look at it through the perspective of volume ... percentage-wise it's not bad," Egli said, adding, "not good, because we don't want them, period."

Egli, council's transportation chairman, said between 30,000 and 40,000 vehicles drive through major intersections each day.

Hunt Club has consistently ranked in the top intersections with the most crashes. From 2010 through 2012, the intersection at Riverside Dr. had the most crashes annually.

The intersection at Woodroffe also placed first in 2008 and 2005.

Other Hunt Club intersections have ranked high over the years, including Prince of Wales Dr., Greenbank Rd. and Bank St.

In 2013, Hunt Club-Woodroffe was the only intersection in the top 10 that had more than one crash where someone was admitted to hospital. Two of the crashes at the intersection were considered "major." Another seven were considered "minor" where someone went to hospital and treated in the emergency room, and another seven were considered "minimal" where there was no need for hospital treatment.

"It means the bulk of them were damage to property, which is not a good thing, but it's better than the alternative," Egli said.

Egli said road safety on Hunt Club needs to be part of a larger conversation about travel options.

"As transportation chair, you have to look at the bigger picture. How we can get people from Point A to Point B in different ways?" he said.

Police will use the collision data to help plan enforcement programs, Egli said.

The collision data indicate most of the crashes in Ottawa happen on Fridays.

It's been like that since at least 2009. Out of the 75,328 crashes over those five years, about 18% happened on Fridays. Thursdays were a close second at roughly 17%.

Most of the collisions have been happening during the afternoon commute.

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Ottawa’s most dangerous intersections in 2013, with number of crashes

1) Hunt Club and Woodroffe: 45

2) Hunt Club and Merivale: 37

3) Hunt Club and Riverside: 34

4) Hunt Club and Prince of Wales: 32

5) Donald and St. Laurent: 31

6) Industrial and St. Laurent: 30

7) Hunt Club and Greenbank: 29

8) Blair and Hwy. 174 westbound off-ramp: 28

9) Hunt Club and Bank: 27

9) Heron and Riverside: 27

9) Walkley and Russell: 27

9) Ogilvie and Blair: 27

9) Katimavik and Terry Fox: 27

Source: 2009-2013 Ottawa road safety report