Wrong Way Crash

The Federal Highway Administration has ranked Texas second after California for the busiest highways in the nation, as reported by the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT). Vehicle miles traveled on Texas interstates and highways totaled 55.734 billion in a single year. A section of Interstate 35W in Fort Worth has been listed as the worst stretch of roadway by the Texas Department of Transportation, as stated by the Texas Tribune. Wrong way drivers on busy Texas highways can cause catastrophic or fatal injuries to other motorists.

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Many wrong way accidents are head-on collisions that happen at high speeds with no warning or time to react. The force of impact is dramatically increased when two vehicles traveling in opposite directions collide. Wrong way crashes are more likely to result in severe or fatal injuries than other types of highway accidents, as stated by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Researchers have found that the death rate for wrong way collisions on controlled access highways is 27 times the fatality rate with other types of accidents.

An average of 360 lives a year are lost in wrong way collisions. NTSB has identified the leading causes of this type of crash as: