U of M website maps our most dangerous roads
The University of Minnesota has a new Website where people can find, and view, the deadliest roads in America, including those in Minnesota.
People can also learn if their favorite route to work has a history of fatal road crashes.
The University's Lee Munnich said rural Minnesota roads have more than half the state's fatalities, even though only a quarter of the population lives in rural areas.
"It relates to people traveling at higher speeds, higher use of alcohol while driving in rural areas. People not wearing their seatbelts and sometimes they feel that they're safer. If you are in a crash at high speed you are going to have a much greater chance of fatality," said Munnich.
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The site shows the location of every fatal American road accident in 2006.
Users can type in an address and discover every fatal accident within a few miles of it, or in a particular state or ZIP code. The accident information comes from Federal Highway Administration public records.
For now, the site has data from only one year, but it plans to add more information each year.
Link to U of M's deadliest roads Website.
