Accident Prone Areas

Pennsylvania is one of the top five states in the nation when it comes to fatal truck accidents, and the Philadelphia region is among the most dangerous in the nation. It is a crowded metropolis of 6 million people, the majority of whom commute to work alongside intercontinental trucking companies on the area’s complex highway system.

Congestion, frustration and constant construction create a sometimes volatile mix on the streets and highways of Philadelphia, making the region prone to tractor-trailer truck accidents. In fact, the Roosevelt Boulevard portion of Route 1 is home to two of the top three most dangerous intersections in the United States.

Multiple major U.S. highways meet in and around Philadelphia, carrying thousands of trucks transporting goods along the eastern seaboard. Trucking is big business in the city, and there is a greater ratio of trucks to passenger vehicles in the area. Add high speeds, shorter stopping distances, blind spots and bad weather, and it becomes clearer why more people died as a result of truck accidents in Philadelphia than any other city in the state.

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Some of the nation’s largest and longest highway systems pass right through the heart of the city:

The Pennsylvania Turnpike is a tolled freeway that stretches from east to west across the state. The total Turnpike system, including its extensions, is 528 miles long and in fiscal year 2000-01 carried 162.3 million vehicles. The highway serves Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, then feeds into Ohio, where it becomes the Ohio Turnpike, and into New Jersey, where it becomes part of the New Jersey Turnpike.
Interstate 95 (or I-95) is one of the heaviest traveled highways in the nation. It runs 1,907 miles north to south along the east coast of the U.S., from the Canadian border at Houlton, Maine, to Miami, Florida. Along the way, it passes through 15 states, the most of any other highway in the country. The highway is considered a major drug route, and has been nicknamed “Cocaine Alley.”
Interstate 476 travels in a loop between I-95 near Chester, Pennsylvania and I-81 near Scranton. It is the longest three-digit interstate highway in the U.S. The connection to the Pennsylvania Turnpike was not completed until 1994.
Interstate 76 runs from Ohio to New Jersey, and during its course it borders both the Ohio and Pennsylvania turnpikes and the Schuylkill Expressway.
United States Highway 1 parallels the east coast of the United States. It runs 2,390 miles from Key West, Florida in the south to Fort Kent, Maine at the Canadian border in the north. At the Schuylkill River, Route 1 interchanges I-76, one of the busiest interchanges in the region, with traffic backups in all directions during morning and afternoon rush hours. When it is inside the Philadelphia city limits, Route 1 becomes the Roosevelt Expressway over the river, then Roosevelt Boulevard. It is considered the “lifeline” of those heading for Northeast Philadelphia and usually has traffic tie-ups at all of its major intersections.

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Accident Prone Areas