NYS Thruway Among The Nation's Safest

 

More than 115 people die on the nation's roads every day.

Most people hardly give those numbers a second thought - until tragedy hits close to home, like some Rockland residents have been left shaken and on edge after three fatal crashes - two last week - in the past five weeks on a five-mile stretch of the New York State Thruway, which many residents use to go shopping at Woodbury Common, visit family upstate or vacation in the Catskills.
Nine people - five of them children - died in the crashes.

But as tragic as those accidents were, they were the exceptions. That portion of Thruway along the Rockland-Orange border had only three fatal accidents on it from 2003 through 2005. And statistically, the Thruway is one of the safest highways in the country.