Most dangerous highway stretches for US truckers

[Mike]

• US Highway 93, Arizona
  From 2010 to 2016, 90 people died in 70 fatal crashes on this road. Most of these crashes happened in Mohave County in the far western part of Arizona, which includes the city of Kingman.
• State Route 9, Oklahoma
  Between 2010 and 2016, 60 people were killed in 50 fatal crashes on this highway. The majority occurred in Cleveland County, which includes the city of Norman.
• US Highway 160, Colorado
  The majority of the 80 fatal crashes on this road fro 2010 to 2016 took place on the portion running through La Plata County, which includes the city of Durango. A total of 99 people died in those crashes.
• Interstate 5, California
  There were 680 fatal crashes on Interstate 5 in California between 2010 and 2016, in which 768 people were killed.
• Interstate 10, Texas
  With 585 fatal crashes and a total of 676 deaths from 2010 to 2016, the section with the highest fatalities was Harris County, which includes the Houston metropolitan area.

Most dangerous highway stretches for US truckers

Based on fatal crash data, these are the five highway stretches where truckers should be the most careful.

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[Electric Chicken]

People are stupid.

 

[Fast Freddy]

Interstate 10 is correctly dangerous. But not just in Harris County. Between Houston and Beaumont 1-10 has a lot of construction. It’s pure hell on these 2 lane stretches with no shoulder.

 

[Hillbilly Canuck]

Interstate 10 is correctly dangerous. But not just in Harris County. Between Houston and Beaumont 1-10 has a lot of construction. It’s pure hell on these 2 lane stretches with no shoulder.

I concur. That road is painful east of the 740mm

 

[Uncle Birchy]

I-44 Missouri "Winter" they don't know how "Salt" or enough plows. ..

Us 60 after the I-55/57 split "Ice Storm"..

They don't "Salt" nor Plow down there neither then cars start sliding across the "Median"

 

[Uncle Birchy]

Iowa is a "Hard @$$" Winter State but they do a "Half-@$$" Job cleaning their Roads.

So is "Indiana "

 

[Uncle Birchy]

Minnesota the "Worst"..

And don't go into a restaurant "Complained" about the road them people actually "Live" in the Snow..

Instead of "SALT" they spray "Beets" on their Highways

 

[Uncle Birchy]

Minnesota the "Worst"..

And don't go into a restaurant "Complained" about the road them people actually "Live" in the Snow..

Instead of "SALT" they spray "Beets" on their Highways

Before somebody gets here before me..

I have seen more "Jackknifed" 35 Minnesota

Usually was bad weather went too fast "Slid " Out .

Now blocking the Highway and Crane pull it "Upright"..

I got Zero "Sympathy"

 

[Uncle Birchy]

Before somebody gets here before me..

I have seen more "Jackknifed" 35 Minnesota

Usually was bad weather went too fast "Slid " Out .

Now blocking the Highway and Crane pull it "Upright"..

I got Zero "Sympathy"

Before I go on "That"..

Out in California I-40 Eastbound outta Barstow..

Before the Arizona Line was "Bull-Hauller" Jackknife blocked the highway we got by on the "Shoulder" 1 at a time

 

[Uncle Birchy]

I thought this over..

Have Sympothy..

Don't know if the man was dead or mangled probably has a family back home wife & kids asking for Daddy..

That was "Callous" of me thinking like that as well too

 

[Uncle Birchy]

I thought this over..

Have Sympothy..

Don't know if the man was dead or mangled probably has a family back home wife & kids asking for Daddy..

That was "Callous" of me thinking like that as well too

Ya people know me I no longer drive a "Truck" anymore..

How many times ya gonna "Bite" The Bullet..

My savings "Grace" was a "DUI" suspect on US 20 Iowa..

When I blew a "Zero" they wrote up abuncha "Truck Violations" but not "Outta Service" and this paper you're company sign..

Free 2 Go after all that..

What he really stopped me for claims could hear "Flat-Spotted" tire on Trailer..

Actually back home my "Safety Manager" was Pissed off..

 

[Uncle Birchy]

That ain't even the First Time I was pulled over in IOWA..

A decade before I 80 Outside Davenport..

This was "Fun" too the Highway Patrol the Country Sheriff & Davenport Police backed them up..

Brought a Dog wow but nothing came up..

Then the one cop showed me how they hide dope and driving for a company outta Chicago..

I had "BOL" and Sealed Load

I was "Free 2 Go" after that..

 

[Rigjockey]

Minnesota the "Worst"..

And don't go into a restaurant "Complained" about the road them people actually "Live" in the Snow..

Instead of "SALT" they spray "Beets" on their Highways

I forget where I was in Minnesota, the road was sheer ice.
They are about the same Longitude as Winnepeg, (Winterpeg) and they have the same Attitude toward maintaining the roads and I believe that is...Nature brought it, nature can take it away.

 

[Electric Chicken]

I haven't ever been further west than Pittsburgh in a big truck. US 6 at Tunkhannock is about as north as I've ever been. As a driver anyway. I've been to Buffalo with my dad back in the day.

 

[Duck]

I haven't ever been further west than Pittsburgh in a big truck. US 6 at Tunkhannock is about as north as I've ever been. As a driver anyway. I've been to Buffalo with my dad back in the day.

You've never left the part of the country I hate driving in the most.

 

[389 Hood]

Yeah, he needs to get him a bunk and go exploring. There is still some vast, wide open roads to drive in here in the US. The northeast hell hole has to be about as bad as LA or the upper mid-west. Hit the lower mid-west and western states. You don't really have to cross the Rockies, but that is some beautiful travel roads in spring, summer and fall. Mountains in the winter are good places to stay away from.

 

[Electric Chicken]

You've never left the part of the country I hate driving in the most.

Why you think I keep talking about sleepers. Farthest south I've been is I64 in VA.

 

[Electric Chicken]

Yeah, he needs to get him a bunk and go exploring. There is still some vast, wide open roads to drive in here in the US. The northeast hell hole has to be about as bad as LA or the upper mid-west. Hit the lower mid-west and western states. You don't really have to cross the Rockies, but that is some beautiful travel roads in spring, summer and fall. Mountains in the winter are good places to stay away from.

I'm not like NE NE so it's not THAT bad I don't think although I've never been there.

I81 isn't getting any better though.

 

[389 Hood]

They run 81 to avoid 95. Spend the money on fuel, not tolls.

 

[Electric Chicken]

They run 81 to avoid 95. Spend the money on fuel, not tolls.

And it's a big fat FSK bridge bypass as well. So even the ones who would normally go that way are going around.