(Photo credit: Ziggymarley01 / Wikipedia)A study by insurer EverQuote using data from its EverDrive safe-driving app and figures from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) Fatality Analysis Report System, has identified the 10 most dangerous interstates in the U.S.
EverDrive was used to pull phone use data during more than 6 million trips and 80 million miles of driving to compare against the NHTSA data looking at 2010-2015. EverQuote then used the information to look at fatality rates based on highway lengths in the context of distracted driving.
EverQuote found distracted driving fatalities rose 8.8 percent in 2015 and says distraction is responsible for 10 percent of fatal crashes. Traffic fatalities are up 10.4 percent for the first half of this, according to the company’s study.
The top 10 most dangerous interstates according to EverQuotes study are:
1. I-4
Stretches 132 miles from Tampa to Daytona Beach, Florida, connecting I-275 to I-95. Fatalities: 1.41 per mile
2. I-45
Travels 285 miles from Dallas to beyond Galveston, Texas. Fatalities: 1.24 per mile
3. I-17
Runs 146 miles from Phoenix to Flagstaff, Arizona. Fatalities: 1.03 per mile
4. I-30
Travels 367 miles from Fort Worth, Texas, to North Little Rock, Arkansas. Fatalities: 1.03 per mile
5. I-95
Stretches 1,926 miles from Miami, Florida, to Houlton, Maine. 0.89 per mile
6. I-19
Runs 64 miles from Nogales to Tucson, Arizona, at I-10. Fatalities: 0.88 per mile
7. I-10
Spans from Santa Monica, California, to Jacksonville, Florida, covering 2,460 miles. Fatalities: 0.85 per mile
8. I-37
Travels 143 miles from Corpus Christi to San Antonio, Texas. Fatalities: 0.8 per mile
9. I-26
Covers 306 miles running from Kingsport, Tennessee, to Charleston, South Carolina. Fatalities: 0.8 per mile
10. I-97
Running 18 miles from Annapolis to Baltimore, Maryland. Fatalities: 0.79 per mile.
