A study released Friday by the nonprofit Go Safe Labs listed Interstate 85 at Pelham Road as the least safe place for drivers in America in 2019.

The national rankings included two other Greenville County ‘hotspots’ in the top 10 list, according to a news release.

Using publicly available data, Go Safe Labs based its findings on a review of over 1.8 million accident reports from 2019 and used granular analysis to provide the precise latitude and longitude coordinates for specific traffic locations with the highest number of accidents.

The study found 404 accidents occurring on I-85 at the Pelham Road exit — twice the number accidents as the No. 2 crash hotspot, located on Interstate 95 in New York City.

The I-85 and I-385 interchange in Greenville was ranked third most dangerous with 189 accidents while I-85 between Mauldin Road and State 291 was 10th with 111 accidents, according to the study.

Hotspots could be split into areas of high traffic volume or areas where there were changes in road use, like construction, the study said.

“On the one hand, there are areas of high absolute traffic volume, eg three of the top 10 occur along the I-95 crossing from New Jersey, across Upper Manhattan and into the Bronx,” the study stated. “On the other hand, the top 10 data includes several medium population areas in South Carolina, namely Greenville and Columbia.”

The study does not account for the severity of accidents or other factors such as population and traffic volume.