World's most dangerous road?
What do you think?
www.compfused.com/directlink/3688/
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Looks horrendous! I don't ever want to be there.
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Yes it looks a bit hairy!
Someone told me that the most dangeous road in the world was the road out of Shannon airport, when the Yanks try to drive on the left.
A lady in the States once told me that it was just so unnatural to drive on the left. No amount of pursuading convinced her that it was possible!
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World's most dangerous road? What do you think?
You wouldn't find me there!
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R1200GS perhaps, see what you get when there' s no HSE (joke)
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Are those recent pics? I think I remember seeing this road on a travel programme and it had been made single carriageway. Traffic was allowed in one direction for a few hours before the direction changed.
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they seem to be driving on the left - or are they just hugging the mountainside?
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Phil
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Looks pretty scary.
I bet the bus driver in this last picture was just as scared.
www.compfused.com/directlink/4055/
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We TOLD him the ferry was just leaving !!
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It may LOOK dangerous, but what is the actual accident rate? I didn't notice the valley littered with overturned trucks. Not even an Accident Blackspot sign. I bet they drive pretty carefully when passing.
There must be similar roads in Afghanistan but with bandits and taliban to contend with as well.
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This looks hairy too:
tinyurl.com/ku5jl
They say it's a road nicknamed Death Road
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So hairy no-one dares drive on it by the look of the photos - or are they all dead before this point?
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Phil
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This looks hairy too:
But at least it has a retaining wall to stop you falling over the edge!
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Not that it was nearly this bad, but the road around the north of Lahaina, Maui (okay not meant to take hire cars) is pretty narrow in points and no barriers.
www.hawaiihighways.com/photos-Kahekili-Hwy.htm
Part way round I had that feeling "I wish I wasn't here" and was praying if I came across cars in the other direction there was a passing points. Reversing around a blind bend with no crash barrier and a big fall to the Pacific Ocean was not my idea of fun. But I had to continue because no way I could turn around.
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I remember roads similar to these in Malaisia some 32 years ago. My dad worked in Kuala Lumpa and we used to holiday in Penang. Usual mode of travel was by road.
Everyone just took it carefully.
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