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The pickup truck sustained front-end damage, but the 70-year-old man was conscious and talking when he was taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition, Small said. The 22-year-old was taken to the same hospital and listed in critical condition. The stretch of Roosevelt Boulevard in Northeast Philadelphia, which runs through residential neighborhoods, is considered one of the most dangerous roads in America, both for drivers and pedestrians. A recent report by Philadelphia’s Roosevelt Boulevard Route for Change Program, which studied crashes from 2013 to ...

Their report underscores what most Philadelphians already know: Roosevelt Boulevard is a messy, confusing piece of road, tailor-made for crashes. From 2013 to 2017, there were 2,846 crashes along the boulevard – nearly 46 crashes per mile, per year – according to the report. In those crashes, 81 people were seriously injured and 62 were killed, with 14% of all of Philadelphia’s fatal crashes happening on the boulevard during that period. “The analysis shows that crashes are not confined to just a few intersections or hotspots. Rather, crashes across all modes occur consistently, block...