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Harrowing hairpin turns, heavy traffic, ice and blinding fog are just some of the potentially lethal perils on these highways. Andrey Armyagov / Shutterstock.com
More than 46,000 people lose their lives in traffic accidents in the United States each year. Fatality statistics are one way of measuring a highway’s perils. Another gauge is the fear factor, tallied in tight, hairpin turns, blinding fog that stretches for miles or icy, subzero-degree roads raked by winds powerful enough to drive an 18-wheeler into the ditch. However you calculate it…