Afghans Don’t Let a White-Knuckle Highway Slow Them Down

New York Times by Dexter Filkins | Feb. 8, 2010 (Special Report)

Even in a nation beset by war and suicide bombings, you would be hard-pressed to find anything as reliably terrifying as the national highway through the Kabul Gorge. Full Story »

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 by Derek Hawkins - Feb. 8, 2010

“The fighting with the Taliban lasts only for a day or two, but the crashes are every day,” said Juma Gul, who owns a fabric shop in Sarobi that looks directly out onto the highway. “It’s a kind of theater. Sometimes, a car will fly by in the air.” The lethality of the roadway stems from the unique mix of geography, the road itself, and the drivers’ disregard for the laws of physics.

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