Deadly dangerous: these are the 20 worst roads in Hungary

We are presenting the top 20 most dangerous road sections in Hungary. The Hungarian Road Management has collected more than a 100 accident hot spots across the country and compiled a detailed list of the 20 worst roads in Hungary.

The list was compiled by the Hungarian Road Management Ltd., the country’s largest road operator. The company has a huge area in need of patrolling and examination through the whole year. Their inspectors are known to everyone as the orange cars that crawl along the side of the road taking note of every little detail, like the quality of asphalt.

They said that there were all in all 103 road sections found with a high accident count. Out of these, 43 were in populated areas and the remaining 60 in unpopulated areas.

The danger database

There was already an overview of the most dangerous road sections of the country done between 2017 and 2019. In the previous database, they specified these unsafe roads precisely by the kilometre markers. However, as Vezess.hu writes, they approached the road managers again for a better view of where exactly the most dangerous roads are. Through an examination that lasted from 2020 to 2022, the next list was compiled. Vezess asked that the route number and the affected settlement be included in the database, this way making these accident hotspots more identifiable and thus, avoidable.

Below is a chart of these roads, with the data collected by the Hungarian Road Management Ltd. The right side of the chart shows the total number of accidents on the given road and the “weighted number of accidents”. To understand this, you have to know that the Hungarian Road Management Ltd counts every accident that happened on the examined road section and depending on the severity of the injury, they rate it.

For example a smaller injury would result in a lower number, while a death would mean the highest there is. These weight numbers are added to the total count of accidents in the end, creating the ranking published by the Hungarian Road Management Ltd. Here are the top ten most dangerous roads in Hungary between 2020 and 2022.