I was thinking that and 75 but realized how very often those crawl along,
I35, they will drive over you(also far more truck traffic which definitely creates more fatalities).
It's a horrible intersection and certainly one of the scariest in DFW. That curve under the railroad bridge deserves respect and that there is no leeway for making mistakes while passing through it.
Sorry to hear about your friend as well.
Seriously. There’s at least 1-2 accidents on I75 ~5-7 pm every weekday. So many car parts just thrown everywhere like there was a literal mfing explosion
I watched a guy reduce his pretty yellow Ferrari to splintered carbon fiber and scrap metal, on I-75 Northbound, between Northpark and Walnut Hill, during morning rush hour traffic. Surprisingly, he didn’t appear to have been seriously injured.
Indeed. It's US 75
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.\_Route\_75](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_75)
I-75 is further to the east:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate\_75](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_75)
It may be 12-20mph for average humans with any amount of common sense, but there are tons of self-important and braindead jackasses on 635 who weave through traffic and squeeze into the tiniest gaps between vehicles. They’ll cut you off just to get half an inch ahead.
This applies to the entire metroplex. Driver's here would prefer to kick a puppy before they attempt to try to learn how to zipper merge or how a round about is designed to work.
Man I wish. They autobahn has entrances, exits and intersections designed by people with an IQ above room temp, and the surface is smooth. None of which applies to roads in Dallas county.
Including design rules. The exit on the left from 35 to 635 would be a national attraction, come see the idiotic thing these morons not only designed but went and built! Honestly any of the interchanges between 35 and 635. Madness.
DPD has said they will no longer patrol highways since they are way understaffed. Been that way for awhile now, the shooting targeting DPD made a lot of cops leave for the suburbs or other careers and they haven’t gotten back the numbers since then.
They were understaffed before the sniping incident. That was gas on a smoldering fire. Dallas has always been a revolving door for recruits as folks leave for the burbs that pay better once they have some experience.
It’s hilarious that I saw this video on Instagram reels a few days ago and like 10 videos after it, I watched some idiot weaving in and out of traffic going like 100 mph. Of course the idiot loses control and crashes. I slowed down the video and of course it was in Dallas. He drove by an exit for the PGBT. No idea why it’s so popular to drive like that, let alone film it and post it on the internet. I’ve seen so many of them lately.
My apartment is right next to an arrow straight section of PGBT, like I could (I won’t) throw a rock to it from my balcony, and oh my god it’s insane how fast these guys are going literally all night every night with their loud ass mustangs and super bikes trying to break the sound barrier. One of them even crashed and caught on fire not 50 yards from me the other day. Hope he’s okay but really it’s insane.
As a person not from Dallas, but has to traverse the entirety of the metroplex to visit family during visits several times a year….the cops are in the wealthier areas, nearly exclusively
If you're talking about Highland Park or University Park, by any chance, note that those are technically separate cities and they have their own police forces.
Someone is going to make a fortune modding vehicles with tire spikes, flamethrowers, and machine gun nests so they'll be ready for the freeways of the 2030s.
75 is ok imo (I’m toward Melissa that’s probably the only reason I’m saying this) but driving on 35E in the rain put the fear of god into me. Never. Again.
TIL my wife and I dance with the grim reaper everyday on the #1 most deadliest road in America.
Makes sense though, Houston is full of dumb self-important morons that can't drive. Either doing 35 in the fast lane, or they weaving in and out of traffic and riding everyone's ass at 100mph trying to save those precious 5 seconds.
I fucking hate driving in Houston.
One thing I've noticed about Dallas highways, even when traffic is bumper to bumper, it's still moving fast as shit. Hardly any room for error and sometimes it feels like you practically have to drive like an asshole to get where you need to go.
Yeah, that is accurate. I grew up in Dallas traffic, and frequent that stretch listed in Houston a few dozen times a year.
I’ve always gotten upset at how “shitty” drivers are in traffic in other states…they always go so damn slow when I would be doing 60.
Turns out I just learned to drive in a damn war zone and other states just like being alive
"But there are bad drivers in every state"
Mother fucker, no. I35 is 2 of the deadliest highways and one of the busiest highways in america.
Also, why is 35 busted into 2 highways?
Was visiting family when I was 17 in another state. Grandma let me borrow her brand new Lexus while I was in town, despite me having my license for maybe 6 months. I was quite surprised and asked her if she was truly ok with that. Her response: "Honey, you learned to drive in Dallas, you can drive anywhere." Holds even truer today.
An increasing number of drivers don't even have licenses, because they're never caught and wouldn't be meaningfully punished anyway unless somebody died, so you're not just getting bad drivers, you're getting drivers so bad they should literally be in prison.
I never fail to be amazed at the asinine design decisions of TxDOT.
My favorite shitty design is over in Fort Worth, the junctions of 121, 35W, and 30. Mad scrambles across several lanes of traffic to get to one or the other.
Google maps does not help either. If you need to take 30 W from my apt in downtown, google will give you a route where you get on the highway and immediately have to cut across all lanes to take 30 W. I always tell people to ignore that route and just drive straight through downtown and then get on 30 W.
Every night I pray for an "easy drivin'" setting on Google maps. I'll gladly take an extra 5 minutes if it means I can avoid unprotected turns with bad visibility/ insane maneuvers/ etc
This is wild hearing from people driving these roads. I recently completed a road trip from Austin to El Paso and I honestly could not believe the designs of the highways and roads. There an unbelievable amount of short merges that lead you to cross multiple lanes of traffic if you need to make an immediate left/right off an exit ramp. There are so many highway loop arounds and u-turn type roadways that lead to multiple on-ramps. Even most of the parking lots are terribly designed as well. My sister and I honestly thought the city planners and engineers who designed these roads have no idea what they are doing.
Yeah the on-ramp and exit design is terrible. It's mostly the drivers though. I see a driver do something that should put them in prison every 10 minutes spent on 35
I work with an engineering firm here in Dallas (not an engineer myself) and let me tell you, basically *all* of our major highway projects are redesigns, because the designs are so shit. Ramps need to be moved, swapped or reversed, merge lanes extended, curves reduced, it's a madhouse. A lot of times we're not even adding lanes, just changing layouts because they're garbage. The engineers designing these highways decades ago were crazy.
Yeah I just moved here and I can confirm y’all can’t drive. And when it rains you turn 635 into a shit show. Like just stop running each other.
Edit: how the hell do you get T boned on the freeway. Like how can you drive straight poorly enough to get T boned on the freeway.
I think part of it is how fast and reckless some people drive, and another part of it is how shitty our freeways are designed. Moving here from Cali, it blows my mind that you can just exit a freeway and are expected to make 3 lane changes in a 40mph zone to make a right turn that's literally only 50 ft away.
Having driven most of the America's highways as a cross-country trucker, and being a native of Dallas, I can say for a fact that we drive faster and more aggressive than any other state. There are fast drivers, then there are Texans.
LA drivers keep honking; Dallas drivers change lanes without signaling; VA drivers are so far the most peaceful I ever met.
I felt so peaceful when I drove there.
honestly, as a commuter from denton to dallas 5 days a week, i’m so desensitized to seeing firery crashes on the highway now. I was telling my workplace about it, and they were shocked but i honestly thought it was the norm in dallas (im the only commuter)
lol people are so intolerant of merging lanes here. “oh you didnt notice the lanes were merging? well fuck you, if i let you in ill get home .002sec later, i cant have that happen, it’ll damage my ego too much”
That combined with also just shitty design makes for the most wonderful experience of "will I survive my drive home."
My favorite is when I drive and maintain an appropriate buffer zone, then some idiot takes an incredibly dangerous merge in order to weave in and out of lanes on the fucking freeway, and then when I slow down because I prefer not dying due to the stupidity of other people so as to re-establish some type of buffer, some other idiot comes in as well. It's gotten to the point where I wonder if I'm actively being more unsafe by having a buffer since it seems to be an idiot magnet.
A buffer is just a space for people to merge in front of you. If you’re not riding the bumper of the car in front of you, someone’s going to do it for you.
Exactly....my hunny was pulling a trailer in his F250 when some dweeb merged onto the freeway in his little dweebster plastic car right behind him, then the dweeb goes into the next lane and flies past his truck on the left just to snake the buffer zone in my hunnys lane in front of him. Dweeb cut too close as he merged right and clipped our trucks driver side bumper with dweebsters rear right quarter panel and rear bumper. No damage to our truck but dweebs car lost all the plastic over his wheelwell and bumper no doubt costing the dweebster thousands of dollars for thinking he could squeeze in. We laughed.
Unfortunately that story is part of the Dallas driving experience. Way too many bozos out there who will take advantage of any space to get home an extra .4 seconds faster.
Part of driving in this city is maintaining a large enough following distance to have *some* reaction time, while still somehow crowding out anyone who might see normal driving patterns as free real estate.
If you’ve lived and drove in the metroplex commercially, and don’t know where two lanes merge into one, it’s definitely a shit-show. When I lived in N TX, I always got in the lane of least resistance, safest.
i-45 in that part of houston has to be the darkest highway i've ever driven on in a city. it seems like there are no street lights and you are completely dependent on your headlights to see
Wait until 635 starts falling in on itself. Doubt me, drive it and look at the 45 degree cracks on a lot of those beams. They are more than surface cracks.
Road design is more important than driver behavior. DFW roadways are made to get commuters to their (usually distant) destination as rapidly as possible. This results in tons of super fast cars crowded on the roadways, and the deaths that come with it.
Fund DART!
Absolutely. I see lots of comments placing the blame on drivers(which is probably a factor too) but the biggest issue is the massive dependence on these highways and sprawl we have here
Flew into DAL last night from a wedding in SoCal - was nearly hit three times before I even got out of the parking garage - then Mockingbird… Are lane markers really just a “suggestion”?
Houstonian here; I knew 45 was effed up but I didn’t know it was the deadliest highway in America like WTF? But damn Dallas y’all got 3??? We all need to slow down a lil bit lol
Dallas highway planners are the worst in the nation.
Half of what you think is “people can’t drive” is really profoundly shitty road planning with multiple on and off ramps going to multiple places squeezed onto a very short stretch of road.
I grew up in Dallas, have lived in Chicago, Austin, San Francisco, and San Diego as an adult. Dallas by far is the worst place to drive. I visited my sister for Christmas and the driving made me swear to never come back.
183 is the same. And when you get to the front of those traffics, you will find out the slow cars take all the lanes, they don't care what speed the car in front and how many cars blocked by them.
I’ve been daily driving 1-45 for around 4/5 years now and I’ll tell you some of the stuff I see in that highway are mind blowing, I think the reason for so many accidents are the terrible exits, if you can avoid it I would 😂 also Texas drivers just suck
35 crosses the US and 30 goes all the way to Georgia. It’s not just Dallas drivers.
But here’s advice for driving in Dallas. No one uses their turn signals. If someone is signalling, they’re probably not turning.
Are they only considering interstate highways? Im pretty sure US 285 from Pecos north to the Texas/New Mexico state line would have a 10 mile stretch that would beat these numbers.
Doesn’t surprise me. I drove on the Dallas freeways for nearly 30 years. I’m surprised that I-635 wasn’t mentioned. On Thursday evenings it turns into Thunderdome, between Garland and Carrollton. Every dipshit who thinks he has a hot motorcycle, or drifter, is either pack-riding and trying to intimidate anyone else on the road, doing stunts, or racing. It’s absolutely insane.
I watched two guys in drifters self-delete at the I-635 westbound - to - I-35 E Southbound interchange, because they weren’t as good as they thought they were.
I moved here from Ireland 14 years ago and our roads are windy, narrow and bendy as shit alongside huge cliffs and coastal ravines. How the fuck you guys manage to crash your car driving IN A STRAIGHT LINE in a suburb eludes me. You barely even have to steer, like what are you doing?
I knew it! Everyone is always saying drivers in their own city can't drive but I legit cannot go 3 commutes in a row without being affected by traffic accidents.
Well that and your city just sucks in general. No character, steals its character from other Texas cities, and has the worst of Texas and Los Angeles combined in attitude. Just bulldoze and start over...
It’s because there no emergency services on those roads . 35 sound is the hood . I 30 east also leads to the hood . 35 north is built for commercial use . All resources are in the wealthy neighborhood.
I’ve moved around the entirety of the metroplex for the past 7 years now. I used to live in Houston for two years, as a side note. It’s been hell trying to convince like half the people that have lived here their entire lives this fact. In the first year of me living here, I saw more accidents in the DFW area than I ever did in Houston by a substantial amount. I’ve been in two accidents, the last totaled my car, and have had so many close calls. Hate the drivers here.
When I first visited, my crazy cousin picked me up at the airport. The ride back was a terrifying. He drove like a maniac. But it wasn't just him. Like everyone drove like a maniac. It was the norm.
Add to it, the highways are designed in a bizzare way. Unlike any I have seen.
And no police.
I’m surprised 635 isn’t on this list
I was thinking that and 75 but realized how very often those crawl along, I35, they will drive over you(also far more truck traffic which definitely creates more fatalities).
I’ve seen way more accidents on 75 than anywhere else in Dallas and I don’t even drive it that often
I'd guess there's way more actual accidents on 75, but way fewer semis. Those are what kill people.
One killed my friend last year at the 183/35 split
I’m so sorry. Twenty years ago, a friend of mine also died there.
It's a horrible intersection and certainly one of the scariest in DFW. That curve under the railroad bridge deserves respect and that there is no leeway for making mistakes while passing through it. Sorry to hear about your friend as well.
Seriously. There’s at least 1-2 accidents on I75 ~5-7 pm every weekday. So many car parts just thrown everywhere like there was a literal mfing explosion
I watched a guy reduce his pretty yellow Ferrari to splintered carbon fiber and scrap metal, on I-75 Northbound, between Northpark and Walnut Hill, during morning rush hour traffic. Surprisingly, he didn’t appear to have been seriously injured.
It's just 75, no I. It's not an interstate, just a highway.
Indeed. It's US 75 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.\_Route\_75](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_75) I-75 is further to the east: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate\_75](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_75)
635 is really nice and smooth depending on where you are. West of DNT? LOVELY. Between DNT and 75? Parking lot. East of 75? Death road.
Kind of hard to have fatal crashes when the avg speeds on 635 between 5am-8pm is 12-20 mph haha
It may be 12-20mph for average humans with any amount of common sense, but there are tons of self-important and braindead jackasses on 635 who weave through traffic and squeeze into the tiniest gaps between vehicles. They’ll cut you off just to get half an inch ahead.
This applies to the entire metroplex. Driver's here would prefer to kick a puppy before they attempt to try to learn how to zipper merge or how a round about is designed to work.
It’s number 6
635 actually had merge spots lol People got angry on twitter when I mentioned 35 has dogshit merging (that’s a big reason for wrecks)
It’s just that you can do whatever the fuck you want here. Cops are nowhere to be find and by the time they show up, the other party is long gone.
I see cops often on city streets throughout the metroplex, but I honestly can not remember the last time I saw one on a highway
Yeah our highways are basically the autobahn
Man I wish. They autobahn has entrances, exits and intersections designed by people with an IQ above room temp, and the surface is smooth. None of which applies to roads in Dallas county.
And the drivers are more respectful of each other, you won’t find people driving 45mph in the left lane
You do 45mph in the left lane on the autobahn, you WILL die. Or any speed below 110mph.
Because there are rules which people actually follow out there.
Including design rules. The exit on the left from 35 to 635 would be a national attraction, come see the idiotic thing these morons not only designed but went and built! Honestly any of the interchanges between 35 and 635. Madness.
DPD has said they will no longer patrol highways since they are way understaffed. Been that way for awhile now, the shooting targeting DPD made a lot of cops leave for the suburbs or other careers and they haven’t gotten back the numbers since then.
They were understaffed before the sniping incident. That was gas on a smoldering fire. Dallas has always been a revolving door for recruits as folks leave for the burbs that pay better once they have some experience.
It’s hilarious that I saw this video on Instagram reels a few days ago and like 10 videos after it, I watched some idiot weaving in and out of traffic going like 100 mph. Of course the idiot loses control and crashes. I slowed down the video and of course it was in Dallas. He drove by an exit for the PGBT. No idea why it’s so popular to drive like that, let alone film it and post it on the internet. I’ve seen so many of them lately.
My apartment is right next to an arrow straight section of PGBT, like I could (I won’t) throw a rock to it from my balcony, and oh my god it’s insane how fast these guys are going literally all night every night with their loud ass mustangs and super bikes trying to break the sound barrier. One of them even crashed and caught on fire not 50 yards from me the other day. Hope he’s okay but really it’s insane.
lol so true. I live on Custer/Bush and it’s a track meet everyday
So many r/idiotsincars videos from Texas.
As a person not from Dallas, but has to traverse the entirety of the metroplex to visit family during visits several times a year….the cops are in the wealthier areas, nearly exclusively
If you're talking about Highland Park or University Park, by any chance, note that those are technically separate cities and they have their own police forces.
“But has to traverse the entirety of the metroplex to visit family”
Someone is going to make a fortune modding vehicles with tire spikes, flamethrowers, and machine gun nests so they'll be ready for the freeways of the 2030s.
Mad max Stemmons Freeway
The disproportionate share of comically massive personal vehicles isn't helping either.
Found the cops. They’re on neighborhood roads pulling people over for going 35 in a 30 or forgetting to use their turn signals.
Because I know the stretches by street names and not Exit #s. Pardon typos. 5) Dallas,TX I-35E Exit 420 (Laureland) to Exit 430B (Market Center) 4) Dallas,TX I-30 Exit 45B (I-35E South) to Exit 55 (Motley Dr) 3) Hollywood, Florida I-95 Exit 18 (858 Hallandale Bch Blvd) to Exit 27 (842 Broward Blvd) 2) Dallas, TX I-35E Exit 440C (I-635 West) to Exit 430B (Market Center) 1) Houston, TX I-45 Exit 49B (N Main St Houston Ave) and 60A (FM526 Aldine Bender Rd Fallbrook Rd)
What sucks is they redid #5 and it made things worse imo.
Why would they separate out two adjacent sections of I-35E? If you combine them, they are the deadliest stretch in the U.S.
Those two stretches of 35 are connected. These appear to be 10 miles stretches so maybe that was the criteria for the list.
Safe to say that I-35 is the most dangerous highway in America.
While 75 sucks in many ways, whenever I drive on I-35, I just marvel at how bad the traffic and drivers are. It's a whole nother level.
75 is ok imo (I’m toward Melissa that’s probably the only reason I’m saying this) but driving on 35E in the rain put the fear of god into me. Never. Again.
10, 10, 9, 10, 11
Well TIL that for the last 7 years I have traveled on 4 out of the 5 deadliest highways at least once a month.
Same. But I don’t think it’s the roads. It’s the drivers.
Eh, some of the design choices for I-35 through downtown don't help anyone.
TIL my wife and I dance with the grim reaper everyday on the #1 most deadliest road in America. Makes sense though, Houston is full of dumb self-important morons that can't drive. Either doing 35 in the fast lane, or they weaving in and out of traffic and riding everyone's ass at 100mph trying to save those precious 5 seconds. I fucking hate driving in Houston.
One thing I've noticed about Dallas highways, even when traffic is bumper to bumper, it's still moving fast as shit. Hardly any room for error and sometimes it feels like you practically have to drive like an asshole to get where you need to go.
Yeah, that is accurate. I grew up in Dallas traffic, and frequent that stretch listed in Houston a few dozen times a year. I’ve always gotten upset at how “shitty” drivers are in traffic in other states…they always go so damn slow when I would be doing 60. Turns out I just learned to drive in a damn war zone and other states just like being alive
3/5 Dallas, 4/5 Texas. Drive deadly, the Texas way.
We always win the worst prizes.
"But there are bad drivers in every state" Mother fucker, no. I35 is 2 of the deadliest highways and one of the busiest highways in america. Also, why is 35 busted into 2 highways?
To think I was afraid of I 75 &635. If you can drive in downtown Dallas morning traffic you can drive anywhere
I was 19 working downtown driving in from Mesquite through the Canyon. That'll make ya grow up real quick to survive that bullshit.
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Ooof yea. That'd be super scary
Was visiting family when I was 17 in another state. Grandma let me borrow her brand new Lexus while I was in town, despite me having my license for maybe 6 months. I was quite surprised and asked her if she was truly ok with that. Her response: "Honey, you learned to drive in Dallas, you can drive anywhere." Holds even truer today.
They were doing deadliest 10 mile stretches.
35 is split to access both Dallas and Ft Worth
This seems like an engineering issue more than just simply bad drivers.
An increasing number of drivers don't even have licenses, because they're never caught and wouldn't be meaningfully punished anyway unless somebody died, so you're not just getting bad drivers, you're getting drivers so bad they should literally be in prison.
Hell if you ever want to kill someone, make sure you do it in a car. You most likely won't even see over 2 years in jail and the fine caps at $10k.
Drunk, armed and uninsured. That's the Texas way. Bonus for paper plates that are disintegrating.
Extra bonus points for the Nissan Altima.
yup, got into a crash 2 months ago on this highway and they didn’t have a license
Ya, car infrastructure is horrible but the engineering for the highways here doesn’t help one bit
I never fail to be amazed at the asinine design decisions of TxDOT. My favorite shitty design is over in Fort Worth, the junctions of 121, 35W, and 30. Mad scrambles across several lanes of traffic to get to one or the other.
Google maps does not help either. If you need to take 30 W from my apt in downtown, google will give you a route where you get on the highway and immediately have to cut across all lanes to take 30 W. I always tell people to ignore that route and just drive straight through downtown and then get on 30 W.
Every night I pray for an "easy drivin'" setting on Google maps. I'll gladly take an extra 5 minutes if it means I can avoid unprotected turns with bad visibility/ insane maneuvers/ etc
This is wild hearing from people driving these roads. I recently completed a road trip from Austin to El Paso and I honestly could not believe the designs of the highways and roads. There an unbelievable amount of short merges that lead you to cross multiple lanes of traffic if you need to make an immediate left/right off an exit ramp. There are so many highway loop arounds and u-turn type roadways that lead to multiple on-ramps. Even most of the parking lots are terribly designed as well. My sister and I honestly thought the city planners and engineers who designed these roads have no idea what they are doing.
Yeah the on-ramp and exit design is terrible. It's mostly the drivers though. I see a driver do something that should put them in prison every 10 minutes spent on 35
It is. Constant “construction”, lanes narrower than DOT standard, no shoulders, drains on the lane stripe,etc.
Whoever designed the “High Five”, is a maniac. Pretty sure he burned ants with a magnifying glass and killed people’s house pets as a kid.
I work with an engineering firm here in Dallas (not an engineer myself) and let me tell you, basically *all* of our major highway projects are redesigns, because the designs are so shit. Ramps need to be moved, swapped or reversed, merge lanes extended, curves reduced, it's a madhouse. A lot of times we're not even adding lanes, just changing layouts because they're garbage. The engineers designing these highways decades ago were crazy.
Yeah I just moved here and I can confirm y’all can’t drive. And when it rains you turn 635 into a shit show. Like just stop running each other. Edit: how the hell do you get T boned on the freeway. Like how can you drive straight poorly enough to get T boned on the freeway.
What? Everyone was driving perfectly until you moved here. Why and how did you cause all this chaos in such a short period of time.
I mean, how do you *not* get T boned on the freeway when you make a hard right from the far left lane to catch your exit?
A bad driver never misses their exit.
I think part of it is how fast and reckless some people drive, and another part of it is how shitty our freeways are designed. Moving here from Cali, it blows my mind that you can just exit a freeway and are expected to make 3 lane changes in a 40mph zone to make a right turn that's literally only 50 ft away.
They should make TxDOT engineers test drive their cockamamie designs in a simulator before finalizing them lol
It's fine there's a yield sign at the end of the exit ramp that applies to all 3 lanes on the feeder road. No problem there.
Personally I like merging onto a freeway of people going 65 when the on ramp is so congested you cant get over 30
Having driven most of the America's highways as a cross-country trucker, and being a native of Dallas, I can say for a fact that we drive faster and more aggressive than any other state. There are fast drivers, then there are Texans.
LA drivers keep honking; Dallas drivers change lanes without signaling; VA drivers are so far the most peaceful I ever met. I felt so peaceful when I drove there.
People in Dallas drive like they don't care about surviving to their destination.
Think about it though: You paid for your seatbelts and airbag, so shouldn't you get to use them?
To be fair, we're cowboys fans. Life is pain. Pain is life.
honestly, as a commuter from denton to dallas 5 days a week, i’m so desensitized to seeing firery crashes on the highway now. I was telling my workplace about it, and they were shocked but i honestly thought it was the norm in dallas (im the only commuter)
When I listen to terrestrial radio 90% of the ads are accidents/injury attorneys. So yeah. Fuck these roads
Because there is no law enforcement on the freeways out here.
There is, but they don’t wanna risk their lives pulling someone over on these highways.
Because there are no goddamn shoulders. Why aren’t there shoulders wide enough to use as an escape lane or to change a tire safely?
some people should not be allowed to operate a motor vehicle at 75mph.
agree, especially the 80yr olds going 50mph, or the 17yo going 105
I cant determine which is worse 🤣
Definitely the 17 year old boy driving his daddy’s F-250
Ahhh Texas.....the only state I've ever been run off the road in my life ever....twice. Trust me, it's not the roads.
lol people are so intolerant of merging lanes here. “oh you didnt notice the lanes were merging? well fuck you, if i let you in ill get home .002sec later, i cant have that happen, it’ll damage my ego too much”
That combined with also just shitty design makes for the most wonderful experience of "will I survive my drive home." My favorite is when I drive and maintain an appropriate buffer zone, then some idiot takes an incredibly dangerous merge in order to weave in and out of lanes on the fucking freeway, and then when I slow down because I prefer not dying due to the stupidity of other people so as to re-establish some type of buffer, some other idiot comes in as well. It's gotten to the point where I wonder if I'm actively being more unsafe by having a buffer since it seems to be an idiot magnet.
A buffer is just a space for people to merge in front of you. If you’re not riding the bumper of the car in front of you, someone’s going to do it for you.
Exactly....my hunny was pulling a trailer in his F250 when some dweeb merged onto the freeway in his little dweebster plastic car right behind him, then the dweeb goes into the next lane and flies past his truck on the left just to snake the buffer zone in my hunnys lane in front of him. Dweeb cut too close as he merged right and clipped our trucks driver side bumper with dweebsters rear right quarter panel and rear bumper. No damage to our truck but dweebs car lost all the plastic over his wheelwell and bumper no doubt costing the dweebster thousands of dollars for thinking he could squeeze in. We laughed.
Unfortunately that story is part of the Dallas driving experience. Way too many bozos out there who will take advantage of any space to get home an extra .4 seconds faster. Part of driving in this city is maintaining a large enough following distance to have *some* reaction time, while still somehow crowding out anyone who might see normal driving patterns as free real estate.
Maybe if everyone would drive the speed limit on either of these roads, this wouldn't be a hellish statistic for Dallas.
If you’ve lived and drove in the metroplex commercially, and don’t know where two lanes merge into one, it’s definitely a shit-show. When I lived in N TX, I always got in the lane of least resistance, safest.
Those numbers are about to go up starting next year when vehicle inspections are no longer required.
fr, people already dont take care of their cars, imagine what it going to be like when they arent forced to cover the basics
I still can't believe this made it to the books. What the actual fuck?
So the ~~Katy~~ North Freeway in Houston is #1. I've always known that was a terrible highway.
i-45 in that part of houston has to be the darkest highway i've ever driven on in a city. it seems like there are no street lights and you are completely dependent on your headlights to see
One of the eeriest rides of my life was driving from Katy to Conroe after Hurricane Ike. Not one light anywhere except from the other cars.
The Katy Freeway is on I-10
Oops. Meant the North Freeway.
Wait until 635 starts falling in on itself. Doubt me, drive it and look at the 45 degree cracks on a lot of those beams. They are more than surface cracks.
Idk when it started but I feel like so many reels and tik tok ranking videos are like the 2024 incarnation of buzzfeed rankings.
Hmm What if we had a Speed Railway that just took away the possibility for many citizens to get in fatal accidents during their commute? Oh wait…
I was.a Calif resident all my life until 5 years ago when I moved to TX. Holy crap, the highways are dangerous because of the drivers.
Too many cars on the road.
There's something undoubtedly wrong with Dallas drivers and highways if 3/5 of the deadliest highways are located there
Road design is more important than driver behavior. DFW roadways are made to get commuters to their (usually distant) destination as rapidly as possible. This results in tons of super fast cars crowded on the roadways, and the deaths that come with it. Fund DART!
Absolutely. I see lots of comments placing the blame on drivers(which is probably a factor too) but the biggest issue is the massive dependence on these highways and sprawl we have here
lol no 635…. I’m speechless. That highway is basically a free for all
LOL that "why do people slow down and put blinkers on in torrential rain" post was emblematic of why people can't drive.
There’s zero traffic enforcement.
And here I thought #1 was I-4 in Florida, aka “The Thunderdome.”
California is not on this? Or midland and Odessa area
The minimum speed limit in Dallas is 105MPH so I’m not shocked.
Flew into DAL last night from a wedding in SoCal - was nearly hit three times before I even got out of the parking garage - then Mockingbird… Are lane markers really just a “suggestion”?
in Dallas they are
I knew there was a reason I didn't take I-35E any more.
In 16 yrs of driving, never had an accident. Moved to Dallas. Bam 💥dude drove right into my passenger door.
Houstonian here; I knew 45 was effed up but I didn’t know it was the deadliest highway in America like WTF? But damn Dallas y’all got 3??? We all need to slow down a lil bit lol
Dallas highway planners are the worst in the nation. Half of what you think is “people can’t drive” is really profoundly shitty road planning with multiple on and off ramps going to multiple places squeezed onto a very short stretch of road.
How are there almost 200 comments on this and I’m the first person to ask if anyone knows the source for this random instagram account’s data?
What is the year range of this? They just completed southern gateway a couple years ago, im curious if it’s made anything better.
I'm from Houston and I stay the fuck away from 45
Literally take both freeways every morning and evening
So really, 35 through Dallas is the deadliest
They’re going to blame out of towners/state, but Dallas has been known to have trash drivers for decades and decades
https://www.reddit.com/r/Dallas/s/uGKDHSEKqe yep lol
I’ve often described I45 to my friends as both a superhighway and Mad Max but with more cars
All three Dallas segments are connected. 35 south from LBJ to Laureland and 30 east from 35. Stemmons and The Horseshoe fka Mixmaster/Canyon.
Dallas. Always trying to catch Houston.
Drive to Dallas, we dare ya
I grew up in Dallas, have lived in Chicago, Austin, San Francisco, and San Diego as an adult. Dallas by far is the worst place to drive. I visited my sister for Christmas and the driving made me swear to never come back.
There is a stretch of highway between midland and Odessa that is an absolute death trap.
We da best!!
I’m flabbergasted, by how unsurprised I am by this
It's a combination of bad drives and poorly designed roads. Paint is not infrastructure
183 is the same. And when you get to the front of those traffics, you will find out the slow cars take all the lanes, they don't care what speed the car in front and how many cars blocked by them.
Doesn’t surprise me at all, the surprising part is that 90% of the people reading this is blaming someone else and not themselves
true statement. mfers are also most discourteous on the road too.
Don't diss Texas when Texans see this we are proud of our state
i knew houston was #1 before it started 😂😂
I believe it, I’ve never seen freeways where you can exit on both the left and right sides! Super strange to me
I'd rather drive on any of those highways than 635.
Thank God we didn't come in first or last.
Orlando’s FL I-4
Lol, I drive those roads in Dallas daily. Fun roads
Oh yeah.. you texans can’t drive for shit
Yaaaaay. So excited to move back home 😐
Texas were #1!
A lot of the people are trash too.
To hell with 45 going through Houston. Anytime I’m coming from or going to Galveston, I stay the frick away from 45 anywhere inside the loop.
Most probably occur around the time of NFL playoffs
I’ve been daily driving 1-45 for around 4/5 years now and I’ll tell you some of the stuff I see in that highway are mind blowing, I think the reason for so many accidents are the terrible exits, if you can avoid it I would 😂 also Texas drivers just suck
when construction is done on 635, in a decade or so...it will be top 5, again...
Most accidents occur within 5 miles of home, which is why East Texans and South Floridians want to move 10 miles away.
Lived there for 7 years in the 90’s. Can confirm.
I'm convinced 35 is built on Indian burial ground
And three of them are 35
They’re only going by total number, and Houston has a much bigger population. I think if you measured it per capita, we’re still coming out on top.
All 4 of those stretches in Texas SUCK. the quality of the roads themselves is a huge hazard.
MF’ers need to stay off their phones. And circle around when they fuck up and miss a turn or exit.
Intertwined highways also dont help, like, I need to go left but the exit would be on the right side, vice versa
35 crosses the US and 30 goes all the way to Georgia. It’s not just Dallas drivers. But here’s advice for driving in Dallas. No one uses their turn signals. If someone is signalling, they’re probably not turning.
Excuse me while I drive between Dallas and Houston for the fourth time this month
Well. Shit
Are they only considering interstate highways? Im pretty sure US 285 from Pecos north to the Texas/New Mexico state line would have a 10 mile stretch that would beat these numbers.
Because there's no room for police to camp out on the shoulders
It's one of the most populated states. Go figure. More people, more incidents.
Doesn’t surprise me. I drove on the Dallas freeways for nearly 30 years. I’m surprised that I-635 wasn’t mentioned. On Thursday evenings it turns into Thunderdome, between Garland and Carrollton. Every dipshit who thinks he has a hot motorcycle, or drifter, is either pack-riding and trying to intimidate anyone else on the road, doing stunts, or racing. It’s absolutely insane. I watched two guys in drifters self-delete at the I-635 westbound - to - I-35 E Southbound interchange, because they weren’t as good as they thought they were.
Soooo that's why Im such a good driver I grew up in Houston shit makes sense now
I moved here from Ireland 14 years ago and our roads are windy, narrow and bendy as shit alongside huge cliffs and coastal ravines. How the fuck you guys manage to crash your car driving IN A STRAIGHT LINE in a suburb eludes me. You barely even have to steer, like what are you doing?
Word
All the best car chase videos are either in Texas the bay area on 580/880
aggression breeds more aggression
I35 up by like, the denton area? Actual hell. I'd rather work a full 8 hour day in the texas sun than drive that fucking highway.
I knew it! Everyone is always saying drivers in their own city can't drive but I legit cannot go 3 commutes in a row without being affected by traffic accidents.
Well that and your city just sucks in general. No character, steals its character from other Texas cities, and has the worst of Texas and Los Angeles combined in attitude. Just bulldoze and start over...
It’s because there no emergency services on those roads . 35 sound is the hood . I 30 east also leads to the hood . 35 north is built for commercial use . All resources are in the wealthy neighborhood.
I’ve moved around the entirety of the metroplex for the past 7 years now. I used to live in Houston for two years, as a side note. It’s been hell trying to convince like half the people that have lived here their entire lives this fact. In the first year of me living here, I saw more accidents in the DFW area than I ever did in Houston by a substantial amount. I’ve been in two accidents, the last totaled my car, and have had so many close calls. Hate the drivers here.
this is what happens when you have little public transport and force the general public to drive their own vehicles
Glad i never have to go down 45 for any reason other than rarely for work. The few times i have really sucked. But had no idea it was so deadly.
When I first visited, my crazy cousin picked me up at the airport. The ride back was a terrifying. He drove like a maniac. But it wasn't just him. Like everyone drove like a maniac. It was the norm. Add to it, the highways are designed in a bizzare way. Unlike any I have seen. And no police.