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[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 19 hours ago

Freeways are also a lot safer. Just stay in the right couple of lanes and go the speed of traffic. The lifted trucks can go 90 in the carpool lanes.

[-] supernicepojo@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Agree they are safer, technically, youre just more likely to die from a collision on the freeway than street level. Probably because there is no cross traffic.

I wish staying to the right worked better. On Rt 60 there is a lot of on/off ramp traffic and some want to be in the left lane cut off by the midlane traffic where the right is actually where a lot more accidents happen.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 19 minutes ago

It's worth bringing up, you're much more likely to get in a collision on the freeway if you're going slower than traffic, compared to faster than traffic.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

You probably said it correctly, but, collisions on surface streets are less fatal because of cross streets?

Freeways have much fewer collisions per mile driven by a LOT

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