well the intersection is a HUGE hub of our town. The main road is like 12 lanes wide, and then there are shopping center and restaurant exits/entrances everywhere...its basically a big gigantic cluster**** of cars. Add that to the fact that people routinely do dumb shit and make sudden lane changes cause they're lost...recipe for disaster.
The number of non-fatal accidents (fender benders n such) there are like astronomical. I couldn't even begin to count them. Not even an 1/8th of a mile from my neighborhood either.