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La Paz To Coroico               

La Paz To Coroico  

This road is located near the Bolivian Andes in a place called Coroico. This narrow road winds its way down a huge valley, the sheer drop off the edge from the top is, 3,600 meters. This road winds itself 64 km down the mountain side, through waterfalls and back on itself in a zigzag fashion. The La Paz To Coroico is no more than six feet wide in the best of places. This road is a two way system road that is decaying and is still in use. As the traffic comes up they pull in the best they can to let each other by. Once every two weeks on average a person is killed by going over the edge. There was a truck in 1995 that went over the edge with 22 people on it, they had gone over the edge and fell from over 300 ft, seven of these men survived but they were badly hurt.

Bolivia’s North Yungas Road                           

Bolivia’s North Yungas Road

This road in Bolivia stretches over 70 km along an unpaved dirt track that was carved into the mountain side. The Yungas road is considered the most dangerous road in the world. This road passes by a rain forest that lays in the valley 985 meters bellow the road. The edges of this road are deteriorating it also claims the lives of 200 people every year that just navigate off the road or the edge gives way. 26 vehicles go over the edge every two weeks due to over taking an oncoming vehicle. Amazingly enough this road joins up with the La Paz to Coroico. The worst accident on this road was in 1983 where a bus carrying 100 people vanished over the edge and disappeared into the trees bellow. Everyone on board the bus was killed.

Nairobi-Nakuru-Eldoret Highway In Kenya

Nairobi-Nakuru-Eldoret Highway

Unlike the two roads above this road appears to be fine, fully paved and mostly straight. This road stretches from Nairobi to Eldoret in Kenya, the danger on these roads are the drivers and the lawlessness. The drivers are responsible for over 350 deaths each year, most of these deaths are alcohol related, but not all of them dangerous overtaking has a big part to play along with speeding. The lawless road sees drivers having total disregard for other road users and truck drivers are as bad as the cars.

The Baja Highway in Mexico

The Baja Highway has many obstacles that you will encounter, it is a narrow road that stretches over 25 miles of potholed tarmac. The advice that is given to anybody driving this road is never to drive at night because of the huge pot holes and the abundance of wildlife. The wildlife come to the road to get the heat off the tarmac at night because it holds the heat well int the night. There are also locals that use this road and consider the cars to be the intruders, many of these locals get knocked down on these roads. People die from speeding and hitting pot holes, over turning their cars. There are many of trucks that hve just been left at the side of the road where they have gone off the road and turned over the vehicle.

Greece Patiopoulo-Perdikaki road

This is a narrow busy dirt track that stretches form Patiopoulo to Perdikaki in Greece. This road is a steep climb or decent, it is dangerous because it has huge pot holes and very little grip for the vehicles that travel on it. It is a narrow road with a sheer drop on either side of its slope with no guard rails or an prevention to stop a vehicle from going over. Many people die on his road every year, it is used by pedestrians, livestock and trucks, buses and cars. A very dangerous road that has gravel for grip in most places and there are no lines to determine where the edge is, this is especially dangerous at night, most of the accidents happen at night on this road.

India Grand Trunk Road

India’s Grand Trunk Road stretches from Pakistan right through India. This road holds the most history, this road was built hundreds of years ago and is one of the most used roads of today too. The dangers on this road is that it is so densely populated with trucks, buses, pedestrians and live stock, every one in India uses this road to get around inside India. The fatalities on this road come from the drivers or the live stock interfering with the traffic. Many people die on this road every year because of the amount of people that use it during the day, drivers may be overtaking and not see that there is someone walking amongst the traffic and ultimately knock them down and kill them.

Portugal IP3 in Portugal

This road in Portugal has the highest death rate in Europe, it is a narrow dirt track that is highly congested. This road twists and turns through the hills of Portugal. Every one uses this road trucks are the main cause of most of the accidents here because of drivers overtaking and misjudging the gaps and forcing other cars or vans over the edge. Drink driving and speeding are another factor of all the accidents on this road, the pot holes can make vehicles swerve when they are going too fast. This road holds the record for the most head on collisions.  Some parts of this road is tarmac with huge pot holes and others are just a dirt track.

Guoliang Tunnel Road in China

This road in China and the two in Bolivia are in a lengthy discussion over which of these three are the most dangerous in the world. I personally think they are all a bit dodgy to be honest. As this road is carved out of rock, there are cracks up the walls and this area is prone to earthquakes yet on the other hand in Bolivia’s La Paz to Coroico could go from underneath you, not really great choices are they. The Guoliang Tunnel Road could also give way from underneath you too, but there could be a landslide and you could get crushed. I have read all the discussions and I think they are all equal.

In 1972 the people of Guoiliang chiseled into the rock as a pathway this used to be the only access linking the village with the outside world. When the accomplished this they then decided to dig a tunnel through the rocky cliff. Only 13 men took on this project and it took them five years to complete it. The 1,200-metre-long tunnel measures about 5 meters high and 4 meters wide. Some of the locals even lost their lives in the construction of it. On May 1, 1977, the tunnel was opened to traffic.”

As well as the tourists using these roads, cars and carts also use them. Its one road you would want to pay attention on. The road has a barrier wall nearly all the way around it and where there are open spaces there is a yellow chain barrier fence. The fear of driving on this road would scare you more than actually driving it, its the fact of being crushed in a landslide or driving off the side of it that scares most people that travel it.