I-5 among deadliest highways in America

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Graphic courtesy of A Secure Life. Photo: KGMI

OLYMPIA, Wash. — A new survey ranks the most dangerous U.S. highways and for the west coast I-5 took the top spot.

Security website A Secure Life looked at summer fatality data on all U.S. highways and found I-5 is the deadliest in Washington, Oregon and California.

The stretch of I-5 in California is the deadliest in the entire U.S. with about 192 deaths from 2015 to 2017.

I-90 and US 2 were the 2nd and 3rd deadliest highways in Washington.

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