How many accidents per year on 401 between Toronto and Ottawa. How many result in deaths.?

Question

Is there a specific location where it is really bad.

Answer 1

The section of Highway 401 between Windsor and London has become known as "Carnage Alley", particularly since 1988, when a long string of particularly violent and deadly accidents occurred in this section. These accidents have occurred because of the road's initial 1950s design, namely narrow lanes, soft shoulders, and narrow grass median which has proven to be insufficient in preventing cross-directional collisions. This stretch of highway is also the busiest truck route in North America.

Highway 401 has been the site of Canada's deadliest automobile pile-up. An 87-vehicle pile-up occurred on the freeway just east of the Manning Road interchange and truck inspection center, during a thick fog on September 3 (Labour Day), 1999, which made headlines as far off as Toledo and Cleveland. In response, the freeway in this area is being given a massive upgrade. For more on this, read below. One of the more accident-prone parts of the freeway is at Exit 109 (Victoria Road, formerly Highway 21, now Chatham-Kent Roads 17/21). The freeway curves immediately east of the interchange and many people are not used to a curve near an interchange, particularly on the Windsor-London stretch of freeway, which is mainly straight.

Another result of this terrible accident is the implementation of province-wide "Emergency Detour Routes" (labelled "EDR" along freeways and exits). These EDRs are signed at exits, and along parallel county roads (which may or may not have been downgraded/former provincial highways) or major arterial roads in towns and cities to help motorists detour around an accident and find their way back to the freeway if a stretch of it is closed for any reason. However, this diverts high speed highway traffic on to low speed country roads, creating congestion due to the reduced capacity of the road.

Keep in mind an accident can happen anywhere on the road...