The death toll on California highways has been rising steadily.

Since mid-June, four people have been shot and killed on southern California highways.

California Highway 49 is the main north-south highway through this area.

I tried to busy myself with a two-year-old copy of California Highways.

There is a trail and coastal access point just north of the bridge over the creek on California Highway 1.

But the hours and minutes remaining between me and an endless stretch of California highway grew shorter.

Before Oct. 17, only two people had died on California highways in earthquakes.

California Highway 1 signs first went up after California decided to number its highways, in 1934.

At that time, California highways were not publicly referred to by any route numbers, and the Highway 1 name came about 15 years later.

I derided that if he told us he'd seen worse on the California highways, I'd sock him.