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Originally Posted by Lomac
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Fak, it's been about 25 years since I drove that route... looks like it hasn't changed AT ALL.
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Originally Posted by Lomac
Not sure about mortality rate on the two highways but the S2S had an average of 215 accidents per year around the year 2000, whereas the Coq had an average of 360 accidents. Those were the newest figures I could find comparing the two. The S2S now has an average of 75 crashes per year, though I can imagine that the Coq is likely around the same number it was a decade ago.
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Originally Posted by meme405
Thanks Lomac. Saved me some trouble.
@Zedbra, there was a map and huge table which was released under the freedom of information act, I cannot seem to find it for some reason now.
But basically, historically there was always less accidents on the S2S, but the fatality figures of the two highways were fairly similar. This indicates that the accidents that happened on the S2S were of a more serious nature. However after the renovations for the Olympics the highways are not even comparable in terms of figures anymore. The Coq has massively more accidents year over year and fatality figures are also higher.
Ill see if I can dig up the table again. It is somewhere on the interwebz.
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Would be interesting to see the comparison as a percentage of actual traffic on the routes, rather than just the straight numbers. I suspect the Coq sees a lot more traffic on the whole, so one would expect a higher number of crashes.
The big difference before the S2S upgrades was, of course, the undivided nature of almost the entire length of the route, so you got a lot of head-ons. Now a good portion of it has a barricade down the middle to prevent that. There also used to be a lot fewer barriers along the sides to keep people going into rock faces or over cliffs... so as you say, the crashes that DID happen, often had far worse results.