Any road is a very dangerous place where an accident may occur at any second, leading to obtaining significant injections or even to death. But the development of modern infrastructure all the time reduces the likelihood of such incidents, which gives the driver the opportunity to relax and calmly feel behind the wheel. However, there are roads, every second car in suspense, forcing him to worry about their health and life, as well as thank fate at the end of the most dangerous sites. The most dangerous roads of the world every year they take away even hundreds of lives, but thousands. Moreover, most of them have no smallest protection against accidents, since its installation requires funds that are simply unbearable for countries that are owners of such transport routes. In addition, it is also almost impossible to pave alternative routes, since it is hampered, for example, the peculiarities of the terrain or other reasons. About this further in the article.

The road of death in Bolivia

This name found the route North-Jungas Road, which is located in the South American Country of Bolivia. This road is of great importance to the life of the state - it connects the cities of Coroon and La Paz, and opens the path from the latter, which is the capital, to settlements that are in the jungle of Amazonia. A hundreds of cars are held daily on this road, including real caravans of trucks that transport building materials, food and other important products.

The road of death, which has a length of forty kilometers, is named so not without reason - it is on the edge of the 800-meter cliff. Moreover, the overall height difference of this section is 1200 meters. Consequently, drivers have to constantly balance on the edge of the abyss, passing simply huge descents and lifts, height differences, and performing other risky maneuvers.

It is not worth thinking that the route has a modern view with beautiful markup, concrete fences and asphalt - any security tools are not available here, and the smallest width of the gravel band is about 10 feet (this is 3.048 meters).

In certain places there are special extensions that allow you to freely dispense with two trucks that move in the counter direction, however, for the most part of this path, such a maneuver is deadly.
In the valley located under the North-Jungas Road route, there is a lot of broken machines that resemble drivers about the danger that lies here, and crosses are installed in the largest catastrophes. Every year the road causes from 300 to 400 deaths - the probability of survive during the fall in the car from such a height is actually reduced to zero.

In 2006, the Government of Bolivia and a number of international funds gathered money for the reconstruction of the "death road" - she received drainage canals, several new bridges and fences in the most dangerous places.

But on the statistics of accidents that occurred here, this was very poorly influenced - as well as the mass of other dangerous ways, after a rainstream, the road is influenced by landslides, which are wash off several cars at once with people.

"Horror tunnel" in China

The "horror tunnel" is usually called the corresponding attractions in amusement parks. But the Chinese have their own glance at such a definition.

Such, they consider the path that passes through the village of Golian, which is located high in the mountains of Hunan. The fact is that most of this dangerous road passes through the tunnel, cut down on the edge of the cliff in the thicker of rocks. The route binds the central part of the state with mountain areas, which until 1972 were actually isolated from the main territory of the state.

Of course, the track is relatively modern - its most is equipped with a stone fence, and the bandwidth meets international standards. As for the coverage, there is a high-strength asphalt.

The only problem is the accumulation of water falling into a tunnel from special windows that allow passengers and car drivers to view beautiful landscapes. In addition, with strong rains, water seeps on the track through stone vaults, which entails numerous accidents, annually leading to 150-200 deaths.

As in the situation with Bolivia, it will not be possible to drive around the tunnel using another expensive, so hundreds and thousands of cars are passing here every day. But China's road services all the time work on an increase in the safety of the tunnel - special drainage holes are made on the surface of the asphalt, and the vaults are strengthened by a special waterproof composition.

Nevertheless, today it was possible to achieve only a non-essential decrease in accidents, which allows this road to maintain the top positions of the most dangerous routes in the world.

"Captain Road" in New Zealand

Fortunately, deaths on this road are rare. The reason for this is the lack of free access to such a route for all cars. The "Captain Road" is located in New Zealand and to get to it, it is necessary to get a special permit, which is issued to drivers only after passing a fairly difficult exam.

Nowadays it is applied only for tourist purposes, although in the XIX century the route was taken out from the mine in the Canyon.
The width of the dangerous route does not exceed five meters, which allows two cars to disperse only with a minimal gap.

Its coating is a combination of large stones, sand and gravel - with a strong shower, it blurs it that he entails the formation of deep crystrine and pit. Sometimes essential rockpads occur on the road, which are the cause of accidents.

It is rather noteworthy that the insurance firms of New Zealand do not reimburse compensation for the damage obtained on this road. As their representatives say, such a risk is actually self-suicide and equal to the deliberate damage.