Information About the Crash
The July, 2025 City Administrator’s report included details of a crash at the intersection of Huron and Main on June 20, 2025. According to the report, a pedestrian sustained a serious injury.
AAPD released the UD-10 report for this incident to CIAA on August 11, 2025. The diagram and narrative are excerpted below and describe how the driver was making a right turn from westbound Huron to Northbound Main after waiting for the green signal. A pedestrian was walking westbound, crossing Main after waiting for the walk signal. The vehicle struck the pedestrian as she crossed in the crosswalk.
Excerpt of UD-10 report with diagram and narrative.
CIAA visited the crash site on August 15, 2025 and collected the images below. While at the location, the pedestrian signals for crossing Main and Huron were observed to function without any Leading Pedestrian Interval (LPI). LPI is described by Ann Arbor’s Transportation Plan as ”signals that allow pedestrians to start crossing the street before vehicular traffic in the same direction is given the green light.“ When LPI is programmed into the signals of an intersection “The walk signal is lit before the vehicle signal, giving pedestrians a head-start on crossing the street, which improves visibility and reinforces the need for drivers to yield.”
Other intersections on Huron, including Fourth and Division. already have LPI implemented.
Intersection of Huron and Main, taken from the perspective of a driver approaching for a right turn onto northbound Main.
Recommendations
Implement LPI
This is the exact crash that LPI is intended to prevent, and this intersection obviously needs it.
Get Control From MDOT
Changes to Huron and Main require participation and approval from MDOT. The need to work with MDOT to implement LPI was called out as a way to address dangerous behaviors in the transportation plan in 2021. Four years later, it still hasn’t happened.
Huron needs to change, as we have seen many times in 2025. In addition to this crash, one man was injured in a crash in the crosswalk at Huron and Division and another was killed at Huron and Fourth. But changing Huron and the other state trunk lines in a meaningful way so that they properly reflect the safety ideals put forth in Ann Arbor’s Transportation Plan will not be possible until control of Huron is transferred from MDOT to the City. Ann Arbor and MDOT began negotiations to transfer control to the city in April, 2025. No update on that progress has been shared since then.