I-95 Death Row takes 3 more.

An estimated 52 percent of car accidents occur within 5 miles of a person's home, and 77 percent occur within 15 miles or less. Far more deaths occur on rural roads than on city streets according to the NHTSA. For many folks, the most dangerous road is the one on which they have lost a loved one. For me, that is Riverwatch Parkway in Augusta, GA.

Walaby wrote:

ken56 wrote:
There is no such thing as an accident.

Stupid assertion/comment.

Most 'accidents' are the result of someone not paying attention, being drunk, speeding..etc. Not all, just most.

We kill each other on the highways at a great rate. Put me in the computer-controlled cars welcome committee.

Both accidents appear to be the kind that could happen on any highway. One was a chain reaction where the initial accident was relatively minor. The other is described as a 'RV driver lost control, and drifted off the highway' and hit the tree line. I took a quick look on Streetview, I95 in this county is wide open, lined with trees, but not particularly close.

Judging from the photo of the RV wreak, I'm guessing it would have been survivable if the passengers had been restrained and protected as required in modern cars. Is the highway to blame, or RV safety?

smarty wrote:
Yet another reason to avoid Florida?

What is more stupid: his posting of his opinion or you calling him stupid for doing so?

Yet another reason to avoid Florida?

ken56 wrote:
There is no such thing as an accident.

Stupid assertion/comment.

Mike

There is no such thing as an accident. It is tragic that some people lose all consideration for others on the road when they get behind the wheel.

SOOOOO wrong. While inattention and arrogance does play a big role in accidents there are so many factors you cannot account for such as a deer running out in front of you, someone 4 or 5 vehicles up slamming brakes setting off a chain reaction or black ice which sometimes isn't even visible. To believe you are in total control while you are behind the wheel is naive and dangerous.

RobWNY wrote:
I-95 is terrible. We are 40 minutes South of Daytona and the way people drive is shocking. I try to avoid it as much as possible but sometimes I drive on it. The speed limit is 70MPH and three lanes each direction. The people in the right lane drive 60MPH-75MPH The middle lane is mostly 70MPH-80MPH the left lane is 80MPH-110MPH (No exaggeration!) and then sprinkle in what I call "The Weavers". The people that go lane to lane driving 100+ in their high output sports cars. I've been down here since November 25th. I haven't seen one Highway Patrolman on I-95. Not one! The local Police cars I see on the State and County roads are unmanned cars used as decoys to keep speed reasonable. Where are the actual Police men and women? There were 4 fatalities a mile South of us the day after we arrived. It doesn't surprise me at all that people are dying at an alarming rate on that highway. Then add in the shootings and homicides in Daytona and Orlando and that's all that's on the news. What used to be a very nice area is turning into something undesirable.

Whale statically interstates as safer due to miles driven, the crashes that happen on them are much more deadly due to speed.
Mythbusters did a segment on what happens in a 50 mph head on crash, is it the same as hitting a wall at 50 mph or hitting the wall at 100 mph. Will test included running a car into a solid wall at 100 mph! That car was Tacoed! totally folded in half, we see people driving on the interstates like they are NASCAR drivers at Daytona!! Ridding bumpers at 70+, driving 70+ in fog and snow.

An RV lost control and a pickup rear ended a car, why is that the roads fault?

ken56 wrote:
There is no such thing as an accident. It is tragic that some people lose all consideration for others on the road when they get behind the wheel.

Really? How so? Surely you don't mean these things happen purposely? I can understand that everything happens due to a cause and the result is the effect.