What is the most dangerous season for driving, winter or summer? If you said the winter, you can reach about 83% of Americans. But the reality is that the three summer months have the highest rates of automobile accidents, which represents about one in three deaths. And as we have already discussed Saturday in August are some of the most dangerous days of driving.
When it comes to the summer driving safety, there are certainly spots that are hotter than others. The Daily Beast crunched the numbers on the data 5 years of data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to come up with a list of 100 US highways most likely to generate a fatal accident.
For another take on dangerous roads, you might turn to SafeRoadMaps, which offers a variety of interactive maps for data tracks fatalities. See their report on the states with the most rural summer hotspots (PDF)
Jon Burner Forbes recently wrote an interesting article on the fastest roads of America -. Highways where speeds often exceed 0 mph. While many of these roads tend to be long straight highway in desolate areas, but the article quotes some notorious urban areas too:
"The fastest road near the an urban area is the California Route 73, six -lane highway in orange County that connects Santa Ana and San Juan Capistrano through the San Joaquin Hills. While the speed limit on that stretch is 65 miles per hour, the fastest 5% of drivers average speeds around 82 miles per hour over 17 miles of the road.
statistics INRIX also show that New Yorkers really do go fast. the suburban Westchester County New York City is home to the fastest highway in the eastern United States - and one of two routes from the East coast who made the list Drivers on the winding, busy Saw Mill River Parkway. frequently reach speeds of 78-85 miles per hour between cities Elmsford and Hawthorne, in spite of the speed limit of 50 mph.
Connecticut has the fastest section of Interstate in the country, according to Inrix. A distance of a mile off Interstate 84 northeast of Hartford, the fastest 5 percent of drivers regularly display a limit of 65 mile per hour speed driving 85 miles per hour. "
For more on the deadly roads, see our previous post on the deadliest US roads. - Including an amazing bonus video on the Death Road in Bolivia, called the the most dangerous road on earth
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