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Article: The Danger Zone; Between '06 and '08, Most Fatal Capital Beltway Crashes Happened on the Interstate's Smallest Stretch: in Pr. George's, Home of the I-95 Connection and Long Sightlines
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- The Washington Post
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- October 18, 2009
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The stretch of Interstate 495 that rolls through Prince George's
County makes up less than a third of the Capital Beltway, but in the
past three years it has accounted for 70 percent of its traffic
fatalities.
Forty-two people died in crashes on the portion of the Beltway
between the Virginia border and the interchange where Interstate 95
splits off toward Baltimore, while 18 were killed on the rest of the
roadway, according to National Highway Transportation Safety
Administration statistics for 2006 to 2008.
There is no ready explanation for the disparity, although long-
term construction projects are a likely factor. It also is the
quadrant that carries I-95, daily tossing thousands of ...