Everyone enjoys road trips. This is especially so in the summer months. Tennessee finds itself home to the second most dangerous stretch of highways in the county. Fifty-two people died on I-40 last year. Only Florida's US 1 had more, with 102. But let's measure these numbers in a different way. Based on the number of miles on the highway, how many deaths do we have by mile?
Using this metric we fare a bit better. We drop to number nine.
So slow down and be safe on the highways ... more