Heads up to Austinites commuting on the city’s freeways: Austin’s notorious I-35 was just deemed one of the deadliest roads in the country, and the second deadliest road in Texas. That’s according to a new study based on the latest National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) data.
The study, commissioned by Santa Ana, California-based company Future Bail Bonds, compared fatal crash data across 96,000 U.S. roads from 2019-2023. The top 150 “deadliest” roads were ranked by the total number of fatal crashes that occurred during the five-year period.
The No. 1 deadliest road in America is I-15 in San Bernardino County, California, the study found. The interstate, which runs from Southern California to Las Vegas, experienced the highest rate of deadly car crashes from 2019-2023 with 196 crashes…