Average Fatalities On Each State’s Most Dangerous Highway
This is not s pretty picture but it does two things. Posting the average fatalities on each state’s most dangerous highways will give you a general awareness to remember to drive safely and to be aware. The other is to give you a heads-up for which highway is the most dangerous in your state.
This info was compiled by Geotab which is a fleet management business. It took crash data from 2008 to 2017 from NHTSA and found the average fatality figures.
List of all 50 states:
Alabama: I-65 Average of 33 fatalities per year.
Alaska: Route 3 Average of 4 fatalities per year.
Arizona: I-40 Average of 35 fatalities per year.
Arkansas: US 65 Average of 14 fatalities per year.
California: I-40 Average of 11 fatalities per year. This is also called the Needles Freeway.
Colorado: US 160 Average of 11 fatalities per year. This runs through southern Colorado.
Connecticut: I-95 Average of 16 fatalities per year.
Delaware: US 13 Average of 11 fatalities per year.
Florida: US 1 Average of 108 fatalities per year. This is the highest average in the country. Over 1,000 fatalities have occurred on this highway since 2008.
Georgia: State Rt. 11 Average of 14 fatalities per year.
Hawaii: Rt. 11 Runs through the southern part of the Big Island. Average of 7 fatalities per year.
Idaho: US 95 Average of 16 fatalities per year.
Illinois: US 45 Average of 11 fatalities per year. Runs from Wisconsin to Kentucky.
Indiana: US 41 Average of 11 fatalities per year. Runs through a rural area.
Iowa: I-80 Average of 18 fatalities per year. Runs through Des Moines and Iowa City.
Kansas: I-70 Average of 15 fatalities per year.
Kentucky: US 62 Average of 12 fatalities per year.
Louisiana: US 90 Average of 29 fatalities per year.
Maine: US 1 Average of 9 fatalities per year. This is a coastal highway.
Maryland: US 1 Average of 13 fatalities per year. Runs from DC to Pennsylvania.
Massachusetts: I-495 Average of 9 fatalities per year. Runs through Boston suburbs.
Michigan: US 31 Average of 12 fatalities per year. Runs along the coast of Lake Michigan.
Minnesota: US 169 Average of 7 fatalities per year.
Mississippi: US 61 Average of 14 fatalities per year. Runs through western Mississippi.
Missouri US 63 Average of 18 fatalities per year. Runs through central Missouri.
Montana: US 2 Average of 15 fatalities per year. Runs through Glacier National Park.
Nebraska: I-80 Average of 23 fatalities per year. Runs through the entire state.
Nevada: I-80 Average of 17 fatalities per year. Runs from California border through Reno, Nevada.
New Hampshire: I-93 Average of 6 fatalities per year.
New Jersey: US 130 Average of 11 fatalities per year.
New Mexico: I-40 Average of 40 fatalities per year.
New York: I-87 Average of 19 fatalities per year.
North Carolina: I-95 Average of 24 fatalities per year. Runs from South Carolina to Virginia.
North Dakota: US 2 Average of 10 fatalities per year.
Ohio: I-71 Average of 19 fatalities per year. Runs through Cincy and Cleveland.
Oklahoma: US 69 Average of 15 fatalities per year. Crosses Lake Eufaula.
Oregon: US 101 Average of 14 fatalities per year.
Pennsylvania: I-80 Average of 11 fatalities per year. Mostly rural.
Rhode Island: I-95 Average of 4 fatalities per year.
South Carolina: I-95 Average of 30 fatalities per year.
South Dakota: US 18 Average of 5 fatalities per year.
Tennessee: I-40 Average of 52 fatalities per year. Connects Nashville, Knoxville, and Memphis.
Texas: US 83 Average of 34 fatalities per year. Rural highway.
Utah: US 89 Average of 13 fatalities per year. Runs through central Utah.
Vermont: US 7 Average of 5 fatalities per year. Runs through western Vermont.
Virginia: US 460 Average of 21 fatalities per year.
Washington I-5 Average of 26 fatalities per year. Runs through Seattle.
West Virginia US 19 Average of 11 fatalities per year.
Wisconsin: I-94 Average of 13 fatalities per year.
Wyoming: I-80 Average of 21 fatalities per year. Runs through southern Wyoming.