Highway Fatalities Highest on Toll Road

Fort Wayne News-Sentinel -

Report: Toll road ranks 1st in Indiana in deaths per mile
Millions of drivers use the Indiana Toll Road each year, but high speeds and traffic can make for dangerous travel as the highway ranks first in the state in deaths per mile, a newspaper found.

The South Bend Tribune reported this week that 19 people were killed on the toll road in 2005, and 11 have died this year on the 157-mile corridor that the state recently leased to a private Spanish-Australian company to operate. The numbers show the road is first in deaths per mile compared to other interstates, according to the newspaper's analysis of data provided by the Indiana Department of Transportation.

Earlier this month, a semi plowed into a line of vehicles stopped in a construction zone, killing the truck driver and four members of one family riding in a van, state police said.
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