Bristol, PA is Pennsylvania’s third oldest town and was once Bucks County’s most important industrial town. Bristol, PA is located along the Delaware River across from Burlington, New Jersey, and just 23 miles northeast of Philadelphia. Due to its strategic location, Bristol housed the first mill in Bucks County, PA and served as a key transportation and ship building center along the northeast corridor of the United States.
Today, Bristol, PA is still bustling with industry and commerce-related traffic. Busy local roads providing access to Bristol and Bristol Township, Bucks County include the heavily traveled Burlington-Bristol Bridge, the PA Turnpike, and Route I-95. These main roads are old, often in need of repair or are under construction, and accommodate vehicular traffic of all kinds: heavy trucks and semis, cars, SUVs, and motorcycles. These factors all contribute to the numerous car accidents which occur in Bristol, PA each year, many of the car accidents being serious and/or fatal.
Other main feeder roads into the quaint town of Bristol and Bristol Township, Bucks County are Route 413 (also known as New Rogers Road or Veteran’s Highway), US 13 (also known as Bristol Pike), and State Road. US Route 13 and State Road, also old and often under construction, carry many trucks and many people speeding while entering and exiting the many commercial establishments, industrial parks, service stations, restaurants, and other attractions along these roadways, making this area of Bristol, PA prone to car accidents, as well.
In addition to being an industrial hub, Bristol is also densely populated. The downtown area of Bristol is home to a large number of row homes intermingled with shops and restaurants situated on narrow, often one-way roads, which were never meant to accommodate the amount of moving traffic and parked cars that they have today.
Some of the streets within Bristol Borough include Lincoln Avenue, Wood Street, Radcliffe Street, Grant Avenue, Lafayette Street, Washington Street, and Jefferson Avenue, to name a few. The combination of pedestrians crossing streets, cars driving down the streets, trucks making deliveries, and cars backing into and pulling out of tight on-street parking spots calls for drivers in Bristol Borough to be highly alert in order to avoid car accidents.
While Bristol is still a quaint and charming town, today it is overrun with road traffic as opposed to boat traffic on the Delaware River as it once was, making it an area susceptible to serious car accidents within Bucks County, PA.
If you have been injured in a Bristol, PA car accident, contact the Bucks County car accident lawyers at Saile & Saile LLP.
