The most dangerous mile of highway in the entire United States has been revealed — and it’s more than 50 times deadlier than the national average.
A study by personal injury law firm Elk & Elk identified a grueling stretch of Interstate 95 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where a total of 24 people died between 2010 and 2019 in 23 fatal car crashes.
The data revealed that while the typical freeway records about 0.0083 deaths per mile, this dangerous one-mile-long freeway in Fort Lauderdale records an average of 0.479.
“If you were driving 60 miles per hour, you would pass a fatal accident scene every 2.6 seconds,” found the joint study, conducted in collaboration with digital agency 1Point21 Interactive.
I-95 is the main north-south highway on the East Coast, stretching nearly 2,000 miles from the Maine-Canada border to Miami.
The dangerous segment of I-95 is between Marina Mile Blvd (State Road 84) and I-595, both of which run east-west.
Many of the most horrific accidents involve drivers speeding off the Marina Mile Blvd ramp, unaware of the sharp 90-degree turn ahead.
The study also attributes the staggering number of deaths to the complexity of the interchanges in the area.
One of the most recent tragedies in the region was a chain-reaction crash involving six cars in February that killed a 23-year-old woman named Yanaisa Pulido.
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The driver of a red Kia Forte traveling south on I-95 near Marina Mile Blvd lost control and struck the concrete median, causing a black Mercedes-Benz SUV to rear-end, WSVN reported.
Driving right behind in her black Kia Forte, Pulido stopped to render aid since she was a trained paramedic and a former Hialeah Fire Department cadet.
Pulido was struck by a silver Cadillac ATS before she could help the injured and was later pronounced dead at the scene.
Three other people were seriously injured, including a seven-year-old child.
A few months earlier, in November 2023, a Nissan Altima had rear-ended a semi-truck, sending it crashing into the median where it overturned and caught fire.
The driver of the tractor-trailer died, while the woman driving the Nissan survived the crash, WPTV reported.
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In May 2021, two serious, non-fatal crashes occurred within two days of each other, where drivers lost control and plunged twenty feet off the Marina Mile Blvd on-ramp to I-95.
A car fell and landed upside down, WSVN reported.
Two pedestrians have also been killed on the deadly one-mile stretch this year, with a woman falling off a bridge and being hit by multiple cars in May.
Last week, a Cadillac SUV struck and killed a 43-year-old black man who was crossing an I-95 exit ramp.
To reduce the number of deaths, Florida officials have long planned to add “speed warning signs with flashing lights” among other safety measures as part of a highway improvement project.
Although the Federal Highway Administration allocates funds to improve interstate highways, each state is responsible for maintaining the portions of the highway within its borders.
DailyMail.com has reached out to the Florida Department of Transportation to see what, if any, crash mitigation strategies have been implemented.
The study also looked at the deadliest 10-mile stretches of road in the United States, finding that Houston and Dallas are among the most dangerous for drivers.
Houston ranks first with Interstate 45. Between exits 49B and 60A, there were 148 deaths between 2000 and 2019.
During the same period, five separate stretches of interstate highways in Dallas killed a staggering 639 people.
A separate analysis by Consumer Affairs confirmed that Texas is the most dangerous state for drivers, with nearly 4,500 people dying in car crashes in 2021 alone.
California, Florida, Georgia and North Carolina round out the top five least safe states.
Although car accidents can happen anywhere, experts urge people to drive more slowly and without distractions, especially in urban areas, where there is more traffic and more complicated entry and exit ramps.
“On America’s deadliest stretches of road, a little extra speed can mean the difference between life and death,” the study’s authors warn.
