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I live in the High desert near I-15. Some of the wrecks are brutal.
1 posted on 02/27/2026 1:23:35 PM PST by Duke C.
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To: Duke C.

Whatever that road is that is like six or eight lanes wide in California that heads to San Diego with everyone driving 100mph and more, well been on that and it was surreal.

No thank you. I can well believe it could be one of America’s deadliest highways.

I’m glad to be off it. I survived.


2 posted on 02/27/2026 1:27:29 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Duke C.

It’s a busy road too. And long.


3 posted on 02/27/2026 1:30:08 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Duke C.

Nothing around Atlanta? Bizzare.


4 posted on 02/27/2026 1:34:40 PM PST by Midwesterner53
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To: Duke C.

Place with most people driving has most car accidents


5 posted on 02/27/2026 1:34:50 PM PST by JSM_Liberty
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To: Duke C.

Curry Highways ?


6 posted on 02/27/2026 1:35:34 PM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: Duke C.
I live in the High desert near I-15. Some of the wrecks are brutal.

Do live anywhere near the deceased late night talk show host Art Bell? At one point he lived in Pahrump, NV and frequently mentioned it was in the high desert.

7 posted on 02/27/2026 1:37:38 PM PST by EVO X ( )
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To: Duke C.
Some of the wrecks are brutal.

As opposed to what? Being gentle?

9 posted on 02/27/2026 1:43:51 PM PST by LouAvul (I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John 14:6)
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To: Duke C.

I’m disappointed that the Shurekill Expressway near Killadelphia didn’t make the list.


10 posted on 02/27/2026 1:52:52 PM PST by Fresh Wind (I voted for Trump the Fighter, not a wussified wimp!)
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To: Duke C.

Mostly drunks heading to or from Vegas


15 posted on 02/27/2026 2:41:47 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Duke C.

Used to live in Seattle Area. I-5 and 99 run parallel separated by only a few miles. 99 is freeway in some places, but mostly surface streets. Both are undersized. What surprised me the most was SR7 in Pierce County. That is not even a freeway. It is a surface street that never becomes limited access but takes you to Mount Rainier.


17 posted on 02/27/2026 3:42:01 PM PST by RainMan ((Democrats ... making war against America since April 12, 1861))
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To: Duke C.

When it was a two-lane highway, the Bloody Baker Grade, an 18-mile-long grade north of Baker, Calif. along what is now I-15 was the scene of many accidents. These often occurred when northbound cars heading uphill tried to pass slower vehicles only to collide with southbound cars heading downhill.

The English actress Belinda Lee died on the Baker Grade in 1961 when the sports car in which she was riding went out of control. And in 1968, a wrong-way drunk driver collided with a bus trying to pass a slower northbound vehicle, killing 19 people.

The Baker Grade is much safer now, with four lanes for cars and a truck lane going either way, and a median strip.


18 posted on 02/27/2026 4:24:52 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Duke C.

Not I-95. It’s hard to get into a serious accident when you are averaging 20 MPH.


20 posted on 02/27/2026 5:03:54 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn... )
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To: Duke C.

Not just highways any place in Ventura county is a dice roll California has deemed it the worst drivers in southern California.

Insurance companies raps desk.


29 posted on 02/28/2026 7:40:12 AM PST by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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