ATLANTA — Atlanta has some of the worst traffic and the highest number of crashes in the country.
Channel 2 Action News spent weeks going through data from the Georgia Department of Transportation to find which roads are the most dangerous.
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“I know I personally had to do a lot of hard stops around here just to avoid hitting cars, people walking out in front of you,” driver Madison Chapman said.
Georgia roads are home to more than 400,000 crashes a year. Channel 2’s Michael Doudna drove along the worst of the worst for Channel 2 Action News This Morning starting at 4:30 a.m.: Covington Highway, Old National Highway, and Northside Parkway.
There have been more than 6,000 crashes combined along those roads in the past 10 years.
“We see systemic issues across the entire state, really, on problem roads and non-problem roads,” GDOT state safety engineering manager Ron Knezevich said.
GDOT engineers like Knezevich embrace the data, taking every accident report in the state and sorting it by road, crash type, and severity to identify trouble spots
Then they dive deeper.
“We try to identify what the crash patterns are that are predominant there, so we can really understand what those localized needs are,” Knezevich said.
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