CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — No one likes driving on Chattanooga’s I-24/I-75 split. It seems to get more crowded by the day. And before construction work began to fix it, state officials called it “the worst intersection in Tennessee.”
Now, we’ve crunched numbers and learned there’s a link between the number of crashes along that stretch of interstate and the amount of freight on that road at any given moment.
First, a startling statistic:
The number of drivers that travel on the split each day is 121,000, according to the latest figures from the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT)…