Of America's Deadliest Highways, 4 of 5 Located in South, GeoTab Says

The company analyzed data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and found the Florida stretch of U.S. 1 is the deadliest stretch of highway in the nation. It's important to note the study analyzed each highway on a state-by-state basis, not the entire stretch of each road.

Along the 545 miles of U.S. 1 in Florida, 1,079 deaths were reported in a total of 1,011 fatal crashes over the last decade. That's the highest number of fatal crashes and fatalities, and when Geotab adjusted its numbers for average daily traffic counts provided by the Federal Highway Administration, it remained the deadliest road.

U.S. 1 was also the deadliest highway in Maryland and Maine, but both of those states had relatively low fatal crash rates.

The roads with the fourth- and fifth-highest number of deaths were I-65 in Alabama and U.S. 90 in Louisiana, respectively. Both of those roads had at least 270 fatal crashes.

I-95 also appeared twice in the top 10 – in North and South Carolina. Both stretches of the interstate have had at least 200 deadly crashes in the last decade.