The stretch of US Highway 285 running through southeastern New Mexico and into West Texas is called the Death Highway. It is not a marketing name or a dramatic exaggeration by journalists — it is what the people who live along the route, the emergency responders who work it, and the drivers who haul freight on it call it. The name reflects a statistical reality: this corridor has produced a per-mile fatality rate that places it among the most dangerous rural highways in the United States, and the primary reason is the Permian Basin oil boom.
[Read More]US-285: The Death Highway of New Mexico and West Texas
Why the Permian Basin's primary supply corridor has earned one of the most grim nicknames in American trucking
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