(Click on the image for Bruce Leshan's WUSA9 report)
- Death toll on Indian Head Highway doubles in a year.
- With fewer people on the road because of the pandemic, you might think the death toll from traffic crashes would go down. But that’s far from the case on a notorious stretch of Prince George’s County highway.
- Seven people have already died this year on Indian Head Highway, and five of them were pedestrians.
- AAA says speeding is a huge problem on the road. Between January and mid-September, 414 drivers were caught by speed cameras traveling over 100 miles an hour; one was going 143 and another was clocked at 161 mph.
- Nearly 500 drivers were caught going over 90 mph, 1,400 over 80 mph and more than 10,000 were driving in excess of 70 mph.
- "When you travel Indian Head Highway, you're taking your life, literally, into your own hands," John Townsend of AAA Mid-Atlantic said.