### Question
What does high risk rural road mean?


### Answer
**High risk rural road** has the following meaning in *23 U.S.C. § 148*:

> any roadway functionally classified as a rural major or minor collector or a rural local road—


(A) on which the accident rate for fatalities and incapacitating injuries exceeds the statewide average for those functional classes of roadway

#### Citation:
  - *23 U.S.C. § 148*
  - Heading: **CHAPTER 1-FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAYS**

