Fatalities most common on rural roads in southern Illinois, IDOT data shows

http://www.wsiltv.com/story/36068087/fatalities-most-common-on-rural-roads-in-southern-illinois-idot-data-shows

CARBONDALE, IL (Tia, Rineheart, WSIL-TV.  Please Click on the link for the full story and video, here is an excerpt below.)

If you live in the rural parts of southern Illinois, driving the narrow, dark back roads probably feels like routine.

Dianna Yates has lived in rural Cobden for 30 years and says she’s mastered driving on rural roads.
“I live on a country road, Aldrich Road here in Cobden, and it’s an up and down road, so I always anticipate what’s ahead of me, what’s coming over the next hill,” she said.

But not everyone is as aware on those back roads. The most recent data from IDOT shows that in 2015, while hundreds of traffic accidents happen on all roads, nearly all traffic fatalities in our area happened on a rural road.

In Franklin County, out of 12 fatalities, all but one were on rural roads.