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The Highway of Death (Arabic: طريق الموت ṭarīq al-mawt) is a six-lane highway between Kuwait and Iraq, officially known as Highway 80. It runs from Kuwait City to the border town of Safwan in Iraq and then on to the Iraqi city of Basra. The road was used by Iraqi armored divisions for the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
From 1979 to 2005, the number of deaths per year decreased 15% while the number of deaths per capita decreased by 35%. The 32,479 traffic fatalities in 2011 were the lowest in 62 years, since 1949. [5] For 2016, the NHTSA reported 37,461 people killed in 34,436 fatal motor vehicle crashes, an average of 102 per day. [6]
'The Highway of Death' [ edit ] The highway is known by local residents as the 'Highway of Death.' [ 4 ] Those who traveled through this highway in 2010 and 2011 used to see "burned vehicles, bullet-shot trucks on the side of the road, and dead bodies, often decapitated, that the cartels would leave behind."
The law firm of Piasta Walker Hagenbush LLC analyzed over 18 years of crash reporting data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Fatality Analysis Reporting System and found ...
The $171 million project to reconfigure the Highway 46 East Cholame Y into a four-lane expressway is ready to begin. 67 years later, California highway upgrade comes to site of James Dean’s ...
A series of curves in the 21600 block of Pacific Coast Highway just east of Carbon Canyon Road in Malibu, California, which has been noted as hazardous. [ 3 ] A sharp turn on eastbound Interstate 70 just west of exit 259 near Morrison, Colorado that is preceded by a 7-mile (11 km) stretch of a 6.5% grade downslope, which has been the site of ...
Red Asphalt is a series of instructional driver's education films and videos produced by the California Highway Patrol, known for their graphic depictions of fatal traffic collisions in a shockumentary style. [1] Horrendously injured and dismembered bodies are shown, typically those of negligent drivers.
For $40 a year, those looking to have the grim news delivered can download the Death Clock, which will ask a series of questions about your health and social habits — helping it to predict not ...