The intersection at Central is back on ICBC’s most ignoble map, as data updated Monday, June 2 for Salt Spring Island noted it once more saw the highest number of vehicle-related crashes in 2024 with six.
The four-way stop — where Lower Ganges Road, North End Road, Upper Ganges Road and Vesuvius Bay Road all meet — technically hasn’t stood alone as the island’s “crashiest” since 2021, when it tallied five, although in 2023 it shared a three-way tie for first place tallying four crashes alongside the Fulford-Ganges Road and Seaview Avenue intersection and one where Hereford Avenue, Lower Ganges Road and Purvis Lane meet.
Central’s intersection had three crashes in 2020, according to ICBC, two in 2022 and four in 2023.
The runner-up in 2024 was the south-end intersection of Fulford-Ganges Road and Morningside Road, just outside the BC Ferries landing, with five crashes; in 2023 that intersection hardly registered on the list with just one crash.
The title of third worst on Salt Spring was shared — with four each — between the intersection at Crofton Road, Lower Ganges Road and Park Drive, and two stretches of Fulford-Ganges Road, with those totals combining several intersections and driveways.
Unsurprisingly, none of Salt Spring’s intersections reached the top-10 for the Vancouver Island region; the worst regionally was where Douglas Street and McKenzie Avenue meet — inclusive of the on and off ramps to the Pat Bay Highway — with 87 crashes reported in 2024.
ICBC’s crash data are current as of March 31, 2025, and include both casualty crashes — resulting in an injury or fatality — and property damage only crashes. The data set excludes any that took place in parking lots and involving parked vehicles.
To explore crash data across the province, visit public.tableau.com/app/profile/icbc/viz/VancouverIslandCrashes/VIDashboard