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Gladstone board to refine crash spreadsheet into time-of-day analysis
Summary
Members asked staff to turn Benjamin Hurt’s crash-and-accident spreadsheet into a time-of-day and day-of-week breakdown to guide future traffic-safety recommendations; Daniel Ilion said he will produce a more consumable version for the board to review.
The Gladstone Traffic Safety Advisory Board instructed staff to refine a crash-and-accident spreadsheet into time- and corridor-specific findings to guide future recommendations.
At the meeting, board member Benjamin Hurt described the spreadsheet he compiled with crash data for the Gladstone area. Chair Daniel Ilion said he received the file and plans to filter it by specific days, times and corridors to produce a version the board can act on. “Ben Hurt has put together a spreadsheet ... a pretty detailed breakdown of traffic, crashes, and accidents, within the Gladstone area,” Ilion said, adding he will “put it in a more consumable format that does look at specific time of day.”
Hurt and other members said the most useful slices would show patterns by day of week and hour — for example, morning peaks versus late-evening incidents — so the board can identify corridors for enforcement or engineering changes. Hurt told members the raw data exists but “it just takes time to sort through,” and asked the group to indicate which days, times and corridors they want prioritized.
The board did not adopt a formal motion beyond assigning the analysis as an action item; Ilion said he will present the filtered results at a future meeting. The minutes for the session were approved earlier in the meeting.
The board asked staff to share updated crash context (locations and brief descriptions) along with any visualizations to help members develop targeted recommendations.
