2nd Most Deadly Highway in America

(Interstate-10 in Riverside County that goes from the Arizona border to Los Angeles is the second most deadly highway in America according to Fox News.)

Whew! We made it.

That is often how we feel when we drive from Palm Springs to Los Angeles. Of course we try to make the trip at times and days when we think the traffic will be less hectic.

Just a couple of weeks ago, Fox News did a piece on the 10 Deadliest Highways in the United States, and guess what, Interstate-10 in Riverside Country ranked as number two.

"#2) 182 deaths: I-10 in Riverside County, California

Two people were killed and four were injured in a four-car crash here in January, after a pickup truck veered into oncoming traffic.

But don't blame the road design, local officials say.

"Most of it doesn't have to do with the road per se," said California Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Chris Blondon, whose area includes part of I-10 in Riverside. "It more has to do with the drivers. Most of the crashes we see along that area are due to unsafe speeds. They're going too fast for the road conditions."

Actually I think that the stretch of I-10 between Palm Springs and Indio is the worst, although I don't have the statistics to prove it. Yet it doesn't seem that a day or doesn't go by that we hear on the news about someone rolling over and causing one side of the highway or both (and we're talking 4 lanes each way) to be closed. I certainly would say it is speed (going 80 or above) and sometimes dust storms.

Whatever it is, I'm glad I don't have to be on it every day.