Are highways and freeways more dangerous than surface streets?
Driving on the freeways, contrary to popular belief, is actually safer than driving on surface streets. Because on the freeway, you’re going at a constant speed. You’re generally staying in one lane on the freeway unless you’re changing to another, whereas on surface streets you’re making turns, you’re crossing intersections, so about 86% of traffic collisions occur on surface streets, while about 14% occur on the freeways.
