‘New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is pushing for the renovation and re-naming of one of the most dangerous roads in the state – known by locals as the “Devil’s Highway,” “Satan’s Highway” and “Highway to Hell.”

The Los Angeles Times reports Richardson wants the state Legislature to change the route from Highway <a href=”666 to some other number because triple sixes are associated with Satan.

The north-south highway stretches 160 miles through an American Indian reservation, connecting Gallup and Shiprock. It actually earns its name – being a bumpy, two-lane road on which accidents killed 21 people and injured 144 in 2000 and 2001, according to state figures.

Federal highway officials designated the route <a href=”666 in 1942 because it was the sixth major highway to branch off of the famous Route 66.’ Nando Times