Here is a list of the 10 most dangerous roads in the world. These roads have high mortality rates and extremely dangerous. People depend on these roads to transport their daily living around these areas, consider yourself lucky. About 1.3 million people die in traffic accidents every year. The World Health Organisation 2011-2021, "Road Safety. The action decade" called, but many of those deaths could be prevented by better while driving, something that is a test of skill roads, and courage, of any driver. The sheer cliff drops or roads through hairpin bends, war zones, whether the following
10. Sichuan-Tibet Highway, China
Sichuan-Tibet Highway, Chengdu and a high elevation road between Tibet where landslides and rock avalanches are common, is undoubtedly part of the problem. This is terrible because every 100,000 drivers a road with a record of more than 7,500 deaths. Rock slides, you should definitely use it carefully avalanches, and because of bad weather drivers.
9. The Stelvio Pass, Italy
At the foot of 9045, slightly below the Stelvio Pass in Italy Colonel DE L'Iseran 9088 feet, is the second highest in the eastern Alps highest paved mountain in the Alps, and. Some roads are much more dangerous than they really look. Helena Bonham Carter with the hairpins, Stelvio Pass looks like a child's Scribble mountains. Road, about two kilometers and climbs with a low concrete barrier between the mountains and steep drop, it is best not to look down. Road 60 to 180 degrees could spell disaster for some more speed on the corners.
8. Los Caracoles Pass, Chile
It passes through the Andreas Mountains between Chile and Argentina.The road fence road has many steep slopes and sharp turns without security. The road is snow covered almost all year. With complex natural landscape requires extreme patience and driving skills to drive in the snow emergencies. However, whilst the road works, which have maintained significantly reduce the number of accidents on this. Trucks and even double-decker tourist buses daily travel on this road.
7. Skippers Canyon Road, New Zealand
Which is made of a very narrow cut in the middle of the sheer cliff face of the captain in Valley Road, New Zealand, is unbelievably scary. It requires a special permit to drive the winding road vehicle. If you do manage to get permission though, you run into someone from the other side will be ready to challenge for a stable and good luck.
6. The Zoji Pass, India
Zoji to bring a high mountain in India, Sri Lanka is located on the Indian National Highway 1D between Srinagar and Leh. He provides an important link between Ladakh and Kashmir. It runs at a height of about 3,528 meters, and is the second highest after Fotu La Pass. It is often closed during the winter. But it is a lifeline that keeps in touch with the rest of the world to the people of Ladakh.
5. Guoliang Tunnel Road, China
The Guoliang Tunnel along the edge and carved through a mountain in China. It can be difficult to see in this picture, it comes out from a mountain road from the village of Guoliang city. Mountain building was cut from the rest of civilization by passing the cliffs around the village. Although it does not much traffic, its construction because it is inherently dangerous.
4. Karakoram Highway, Pakistan
The governments of the "Friendship Highway" by its construction. Karakoram Highway is the highest paved international road. At an altitude of 4,693 meters through the Khunjerab Pass, connects China and Pakistan across the Karakoram mountain range. To make this avalanche and flood-prone and falling matters worse, the road is unpaved in Pakistan. But it is going through some spectacular gorges along the old Silk Road, is now a tourist attraction.
3. James Dalton Highway, Alaska
Dalton Highway, a 667-km road in Alaska. The Elliott Highway, Fairbanks starts in the North, and the Arctic Ocean and ends at Deadhorse near Prudhoe Bay oil fields. Although at first glance appear serene, the potholes, filled with small flying stones carried by fast winds, and worst of all, it runs through the middle of nowhere.
2. Jalalabad–Kabul Road, Afghanistan
Many roads have been dubbed "the most dangerous," but 65-kilometer stretch of road from Jalalabad to Kabul, the maximum claim that the Taliban did Bill. But it is a risk of conflict that makes it so dangerous highway. The climb up to 600 meters and heavy haulage trucks laden careful drivers Afghanistan through Kabul gorge that is a combination of narrow, winding lanes.
1. North Yungas Road, Bolivia
Also in the Yungas region of Bolivia known as the "road of death". This is the "world's most extreme danger and on the Inter-American Development Bank as a dangerous road" is legendary. Estimated that 300 passengers are killed yearly along the road 200. Road where vehicles are marked with a cross in the first places to fall. To go tumbling down the valley buses and trucks, especially when they have a regular presence for trying to pass each other.
