A tech company has named a stretch of Interstate 95 in New Haven among the top 5 riskiest roadsĀ in the nation for fleet drivers in 2021.
Lytx, a California-based company that provides data and safety monitoring for commercial, public-sector and field-service fleets, aggregated 14 million risky driving incidents involving vehicle ļ¬eets in 2021 and analyzed stretches of road using its proprietary risk-scoring system.
A segment called āInterstate 95 near the Port of New Haven (New Haven, Conn.)ā ranked fourth nationwide on the riskiest roadways list.Ā
Interstate 94 near Michiganās Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport topped the ranking, and three different sections of U.S. 422 in Pennsylvania rounded out the top 5.
āThese five roadway segments are 220 times riskier than the average roadway,ā Lytx said in a statement.Ā
TheĀ five all presented hazards including narrow roadways and proximity to interchanges, construction zones or on/off ramps. Even so, fleet drivers on these roadways were more often seen speeding and coming to a rolling stop, and showing unsafe behavior while braking, maintaining following distance and navigating rough pavement.
Lytx Director of Safety Services Gary Johnson said, āIn an ever-challenging transportation landscape, itās more important than ever that we continue innovating and developing tools to help keep our fleet drivers safe and aware of the risks around them.ā
Fleet drivers nationwide showed increasingly risky behaviors in 2021, according to the Lytx analysis, including more distraction from cellphones and other electronic devices, not wearingĀ seatbelts, speedingĀ and eating and drinking behind the wheel.Ā
Lytx cited National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data for the first nine months of 2021 that showed a 12% increase in fatal traffic crashes nationwide compared with 2020, with 31,720 people dying in motor vehicle traffic crashes in 2021 compared with 28,325 fatalities in the same period in 2020.
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