Coming on the heels of a weekend in which a well-known volunteer traffic officer was critically injured after being hit at the intersection of M Street and Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown, the District Department of Transportation has released a draft report detailing the city’s most dangerous intersections.

Topping the list with 13 crashes between 1998 and 2002 is the intersection at Benning Road and Minnesota Avenue in Northeast, pictured at left, followed closely by Seventh Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in Southeast. Of the top twenty most dangerous intersections, seven were in Northwest, seven in Northeast, and six in Southeast.

This year has seen a 200 percent increase in pedestrian deaths from the same time last year, though the District remains relatively safe compared to other cities in the U.S. The Surface Transportation Policy Project released a study late last year which found that Orlando, Tampa, West Palm Beach, and Miami-Fort Lauderdale, all Florida cities, topped out as the country’s most dangerous locales for pedestrians. Locally, Richmond, Va., was ranked as one of the cities to have suffered the greatest declines in pedestrian safety.

The Post recently reported on an inventive method to ensure pedestrian safety while crossing the area’s roads — a bright orange flag. Residents of Chevy Chase petitioned their local government to purchase the flags so as to best allow pedestrians to negotiate crossing Connecticut Avenue — which is six-lanes wide — at rush hour. The District is planning on installing more than 1,000 bright pedestrian countdown signals around the city by the end of this year, though city activists have noted that few exist outside of the downtown area.

Are there any intersections or stretches of city street that DCist readers find particularly unnerving and/or dangerous?

In related news, a vigil will be held tonight for the injured Georgetown traffic officer, Joseph Pozell. The vigil will be held at the corner of 30th and R streets in Georgetown, and starts at 7:30 p.m.

The satellite image above was taken from Google Maps.