America’s Deadliest Highways Ranked

Tampa Bay area residents might be surprised to learn that Interstate 4 isn’t considered one of America’s deadliest highways, but a few other roads on the list will likely garner nods of agreement from local motorists.

To create its listing of the Most Dangerous Highways in America, the Auto Insurance Center looked at data supplied by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for 2014. The analysis was drawn from the administration’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS).

The Auto Insurance Center estimates that one person was killed every 16 minutes on an American roadway in 2014. That statistic represents 32,675 lives lost in motor vehicle crashes that year.

“Although the country’s rate of traffic deaths per capita has been steadily declining since 1975, it’s clear that the current death toll is still too high,” the center’s report states.

According to the Auto Insurance Center, the following roads are the Top 10 deadliest in America:

• Interstate 10 – 278 deaths in 2014
• Interstate 95 – 204 deaths in 2014
• Interstate 40 – 183 deaths in 2014
• Interstate 75 – 161 deaths in 2014
• U.S. 1 – 150 deaths in 2014
• Interstate 20 – 121 deaths in 2014
• Interstate 80 – 114 deaths in 2014
• Interstate 5 – 112 deaths in 2014
• Interstate 70 – 112 deaths in 2014
• Interstate 35 – 102 deaths in 2014

U.S. 41 also made the list with 99 deaths in 2014

To read the full report, visit the Auto Insurance Center online.

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