From MSN.com and MSNBC news, America's deadliest roads. What do you think?


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7844269/?gt1=6542

 

I saw this on television Rob and was waiting for them to report The Dragon as one of those roads.

 

I did a quick scan of the article and didn't see any list of "America's deadliest roads"; instead, I think it just talked about the "Deadly roads" in general -- the fact that it is dangerous to walk and drive on America's roads. Or did I miss the list of the "deadliest roads"?

 

They actually listed a few of the roads on the Dateline segment Sunday night as they talked about them and gave the statistics as to why they were on the list. Most of them from what I can remember were out west.

 

I looked at this thread earlier and the link to the road list was down. Now I can't find the link to the road list. Anyway, the second page talks about highway 138 in California. That is one that I use quite often, and one Andy and I drove on Sunday to get to the snow and Wrightwood. The deaths are almost always due to someone passing when it isn't safe and having a head-on. And yes, sometimes people do crash into the aqueduct. I don't worry about it when I drive it. I just pay close attention. If you get a ticket on there the fines are doubled.

 

Since the report was done by the Dateline crew I'm surprised that they didn't stage some accidents to prove their point....

Screwing in a lightbulb can be deadly.......to the IQ challenged.

 

The I-30 through Dallas used to be my regular daily route in to work. No danger....unless you're an idiot and try to cross the highway on foot at night, which is illegal, not to mention that it's difficult at night to determine a car's speed. I-30 itself is not a difficult-to-travel road. There are 2 large curves that are probably 150-degree angles, which most drivers have no difficulty traversing at 10-15 mph over the speed limit (I routinely drive the F250 pulling the trailer with the S on it over this stretch at 75 mph, as do semis, box trucks, buses, etc); HOWEVER, on a daily basis, there are cars that end up balanced on the center median wall, upside down next to the center wall, multiple car incidents (usually involving the center wall), and cars that have run off the side and down into the ditch. When I pass through this area, I can look in my rear-view mirror and see a squall line of cars forming behind me as they slow to 5 below the limit to take the dreaded Ferguson curve I pretty much think it's a weeding process. As far as Hwy 19 in Florida....that runs right through the blue-hair section and I've ridden with my Dad ONCE....now I drive when I visit. It's no surprise that this is a deadly road....there's a definite lack of driving acumen over at least a 5-mile stretch of this one.

 

I watched the show. Phonix, AZ roads came up in a couple categories as being one of the one worst in the entire US. I recall Rt 41 in PA was a really bad one. The Rt between CA and Mexico was bad too (underage drunks). At the web site you have to click on the icon photo and then enter your county & state to see your own country records. No surprises here in my county.

 

Thanks. Now I can look at the list of our local roads within my county. But I am really surprised by the number of pedestrians killed on divided highways in my county (11 killed from 1999-2003 on US-101). How can there be so many pedestrians walking around a divided highway?

 

Weeding out process based on IQ.

I always get incensed when I read stories about speed killing. My contention is that a skilled driver paying attention and driving 100 mph is safer than an unskilled driver not paying attention driving 50 mph. But according to our laws the 100 mph driver is a criminal and the 50 mph driver is "safe".

We have a similar situation here in Phoenix on one of our roads. The news did a story about how "speed kills" on 101 in Scottsdale and then proceeded to talk about several wrecks where drivers killed other drivers while speeding while DRUNK - and their take on it was that speed kills so apparently driving drunk had nothing to do with it.