Other Meanings
Roads called "Slaughter Alley" for reasons other than high fatal accident rates include:
- Florida State Road 29, because of a high number of Florida panthers killed there.
- The road from Kuwait to Basra (better-known as "Highway of Death") where the retreating Iraqi army was destroyed in the 1991 Gulf War by American forces.
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