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Originally Posted by paulsparrow
I would throw in that Surrey is home of the worst drivers in the lower mainland too so accidents are higher on bridges coming out of the south of the fraser (AF, Pattullo, PM) than anywhere else.
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Well, there are more people travelling from the SOF than from many other places, so if accident rates per driver stayed constant in the entire population, of course there will be more accidents on the Fraser river bridges.
It also has to do with the design and nature of the bridges. On the AFB it's usually because once you get on the bridge, traffic clears up, so you can start driving 100km/h after spending the last 20+ minutes stop and go on one of the feeders. So everyone guns it up the bridge, then gravity pulls them down the other side, and when someone realizes they are in the wrong lane and slow down or quickly change, it causes accidents because people have to break from a highspeed going down a pretty steep hill. Other bridges don't have the same problem because they don't have to go up and down so much so quickly.
Not leaving enough space while travelling at a high speed is pretty common all over the lower mainland. There seems to be lots of accidents around the Second Narrows, on the cut, and at the Cassiar too.