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The state’s Traffic Safety Commission recently announced that 745 people were killed in crashes last year.
As at June 2021, it manages 18,695 kilometres (11,617 mi) of roads, representing the arterial road network in Western Australia. [3] Each of the roads must be declared a "public highway" or "main road" in the Western Australian Government Gazette and is allocated a highway or main road number – many roads perceived as main roads by the public ...
One year after Forrest Highway opened, the number of road accidents on the main roads in the area had decreased by 60%. Traffic on South Western Highway had reduced by 50% north of Pinjarra, and by 20% to the south, [ 73 ] and there was an 82% reduction along Old Coast Road within a month of the new highway opening. [ 74 ]
Interstate 82 was closed eastbound near Benton City for more than seven hours as the Washington State Patrol investigated a wrong-way crash that left two people dead.
Interstate 5 was at a standstill for several hours through Bellingham early Wednesday afternoon after a serious injury crash that blocked both directions of the freeway near Sunset Drive.
Highways in Western Australia include both roads that are named as a highway, and roads that have been declared as a highway under the Main Roads Act 1930. The standard of highways range from two-lane roads, common in rural areas, to controlled access, grade separated freeways in Perth. In legislation, a highway is a type of road controlled and ...
On May 23, 2013, at approximately 7:00 pm PDT, a span of the bridge carrying Interstate 5 over the Skagit River in the U.S. state of Washington collapsed. Three people in two different vehicles fell into the river below and were rescued by boat, escaping serious injury.
The crash, which is closing the right lane of southbound I-5 near the Bakerview exit, has Friday morning traffic backed up to Ferndale.