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For thousands of years roads have
provided a means for safer and more efficient movement of goods and people, but
at the same time every year about 1.3 million people die due to road accidents.
While better driving could prevent many of those deaths, but there are some
roads that test the skill, and courage, of any driver.
You may be a good driver but these
roads challenge your driving skills, and if you won’t be conscious enough while
driving on these roads then you are in extreme dangers. These roads have high
death rates and are extremely dangerous. Here we have brought to you a list of
worlds 10 dangerous roads to drive on.
10. Los Caracoles Pass, Chile
This road passes through mountain
Andreas between Chile and Argentina. The road has many steep slopes and sharp
turns without fences security. The road is snow-covered almost all the year.
Snow together with the complex natural landscape requires extreme patience and
driving skill to drive in emergency situations.
9. Skippers Canyon Road, New Zealand
The Skippers Canyon Road, located
in New Zealand, is unbelievably scary as it’s made from a very narrow cut in
the middle of a sheer cliff face. This winding road actually requires a special
permit to drive. If you do manage to get permission though, be ready for a
slippery challenge and good luck if you run into someone coming from the other
direction.
8. The Zoji Pass, India Administered Kashmir
Zoji La is a high mountain pass in
India, located on the National Highway 1D between Srinagar and Leh. The pass
provides a vital link between Ladakh and Kashmir. It runs at an elevation of
approximately 3,528 metres, and is the second highest pass after Fotu La. It is
often closed during winter. But it’s a lifeline that keeps the people of Ladakh
in touch with the rest of the world.
7. Guoliang Tunnel Road, China
The Guoliang Tunnel is carved
along the side of and through a mountain in China. It may be hard to see in the
photo, several villagers from the town of Guoliang hollowed this road out of
the side of a mountain. Before the construction of this mountain pass the
village was cut of from the rest of civilization by the surrounding cliffs.
Although it doesn’t see much traffic, due to its construction it is inherently
fairly dangerous.
6. BR-116, Brazil
The second longest road in Brazil
has been nicknamed “The Highway of Death” for obvious reasons. Every year
thousands of people die due to its poor upkeep and maintenance and even threats
from gangs and bandits.
5. Karakoram Highway, Pakistan
Named the “Friendship Highway” by
the governments who built it. The Karakoram Highway is the highest paved
international road in the world. It connects China and Pakistan across the
Karakoram mountain range, through the Khunjerab Pass, at an elevation of 4,693
metres. It’s prone to landslides and floods and to make matters worse, the road
is unpaved in Pakistan. But it is still a tourist attraction, passing through
some spectacular gorges along the old Silk Road.
4. James Dalton Highway, Alaska
The Dalton Highway is a 667 km
road in Alaska. It begins at the Elliott Highway, north of Fairbanks, and ends
at Dead horse near the Arctic Ocean and the Prudhoe Bay oil fields. Although
appearing serene at first glance, is filled with potholes, small flying rocks
carried by fast winds, and worst of all it runs through the middle of nowhere.
3. Jalalabad–Kabul Road, Afghanistan
Many roads have been dubbed “most
dangerous,” but the 65-kilometer stretch of highway from Jalalabad to Kabul has
more claim than most, snaking through Taliban territory. But it’s not the
threat of insurgency that makes Highway so dangerous. It’s a combination of the
narrow, winding lanes that climb up to 600 meters through the Kabul gorge and
the reckless Afghan drivers trying to overtake the heavily burdened haulage
trucks.
2. Commonwealth Avenue, Philippines
More popularly known as the “Killer
Highway” of the Philippines, Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City has seen
numerous pedestrian, cyclist, and vehicular deaths over the years due to awful
regulations and enforcement of traffic laws.
1. North Yungas Road, Bolivia
Also known as the “Road of Death”
in the Yungas region of Bolivia. It is legendary for its extreme danger and the
Inter-American Development Bank christened it as the “world’s most dangerous
road”. One estimate is that 200 to 300 travelers are killed yearly along the
road. The road includes cross markings on many of the spots where vehicles have
fallen. It is a regular occurrence for buses and trucks to go tumbling to the
valley below, especially when they try passing each other.
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