The Most Dangerous Road in the World

The most dangerous road in the world is in Bangladesh. It isn't narrow, doesn't hang off the edge of a cliff. It is freshly paved.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/dec/09/world-most-lethal-road-bangladesh
It's a good read...

Quote :

The World Health Organisation believes that more than 20,000 people are killed on Bangladesh's roads every year. Government figures put the N2 death rate at 180 a year – around 10 times higher than the UK's worst road – yet the official statistics are disputed by road safety experts there, who say the real death toll is likely to be at least four times that. If they're right that means at least two people die each day, with tens of thousands more injured.

A bus crashes into a three-wheeled rickshaw, killing the driver and the policeman is nonchalant.

Quote :

"Another one dead?" a driver shouted at a highway police officer, filling out a road accident report. "How many more?"

The police officer shrugged when I asked him what happened to the driver of the bus – who had killed the rickshaw driver and put another three in hospital. "He has run away," he said.

"But there must be records of who was driving the bus; the company must be able to trace him?" I asked him. "He ran away," the policeman repeated patiently, waving us away and walking back to his motorbike. "He's gone. It's just another accident."

Wow. I always thought that the most dangerous road in the world was in Bolivia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yungas_Road

Bolivian Road of Death (stats):

http://www.ssqq.com/archive/vinlin27b.htm



From Top Gear (gets freaking HAIRY @6:45):



Any way you slice it, both of these roads are extremely dangerous, and as much dangerous crap as I am willing to do, you won't likely find me on any of these roads!