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10 IGNITION
MOTOR WORLDThe world’s most
dangerous roads
Accidents happen, but the
world’s most dangerous
roads give new meaning to
the words ‘careful driver’…
The nickname Death to a week-long wait to pass the ‘road’ traverses desert, rough
Road tells you all you need to route. People also claim part terrain with loose boulders from
know about Bolivia’s North of the road has an underground the cliffs, and sheer drops.
Yungas Road. Forty miles of gas leak, due to the high Perhaps surprisingly, one of
sheer drops and the looming number of car crashes there, the world’s most hazardous
threat of landslides mean that and the strange seemingly roads in terms of annual death
the road has a higher death toll ‘drugged’ state of survivors. toll is the A682 in Lancashire.
per year than any other road Those brave enough to Judged the most dangerous
in the world. Locals make attempt climbing Everest fi rst stretch of highway in Europe by
offerings to the gods before have to navigate the nerve- the European Road Assessment
embarking on the journey, racking route from Katmandu Programme in 2007, the narrow
whereas gung-ho tourists on to base camp. Rising to 4,000 road has claimed almost 100
mountain bikes fl irt with danger metres above sea level, the lives over the past 10 years.
and go it alone – often with The approach to Adelaide
deadly results. through the Australian
There’s only one route from Outback is dangerous in part
Siberia to Yakutsk, Russia due to its sweltering desert
and it’s not an easy one. The conditions, but mostly because
road is actually a clay track, so many people who drive it are
which becomes thick mud ill prepared for the journey.
when wet, meaning vehicles get Insufficient provisions and faulty
stuck – sometimes sinking into equipment mean that those PHOTOGRAPHIC
Toblivion – and queues as long who set off on the road often
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as 100km form, resulting in up don’t arrive at their destination.
HASLER,
BENDid you know
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