Rural Areas Top Map of Highest Fatality Roads in the U.S.

A new Google Maps mashup, Safe Road Maps, debuts today from the Center for Excellence in Rural Safety. From the site:

This website is a ground-breaking tool that combines information from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System with Google Maps to give you a visual representation of traffic safety across the entire nation.  With this system, you can enter an address and view the roads that have the highest number of traffic fatalities in a specified area.  You can also view dynamically generated maps that show how public policy has been implemented to improve transportation safety by region.  Our hope is that this site brings both increased safety and awareness to transportation policy makers and private citizens.

This is quite an elaborate application, one that takes a moment or two to understand and use. Lots of filtering options should allow the curious to tap into just the geography and situations of interest.

via LiveScience