Since 2010, 61 people, many of them pedestrians, have been killed along this stretch of the highway, and many more have been injured - especially along a 2-mile segment aptly known as 'Dead Man's Curve.'
Some of the country's most car-dependent cities are in the Western U.S., while parts of the region also have the highest numbers of unhoused people. Unsheltered people are more exposed to traffic danger, since they spend more time outdoors and as pedestrians than the general public.
At least eight, and probably more, of the 60-plus people who died were experiencing homelessness at the time. They are often over-represented in fatal traffic incidents.
The tragedy helped draw attention to the dangerous road, but the fatalities didn't end here: This October, a woman walking on the side of the road was killed in a collision between a motorcycle and a car.
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