It’s not drunken driving or speeding. It’s not unlatched seat belts or inexperienced teenage drivers. The greatest danger on the nation’s highways is at a place where people are expected to be slowing down: tollbooths.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators said toll plazas are the most deadly areas on highways, and said their design standards have gone unregulated since they were introduced 50 years ago. …
Toll plazas account for 49 percent of all interstate accidents in Illinois and 38 percent in New Jersey, according to an NTSB report.