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The US cities with the highest traffic fatalities. Daytona Beach, Florida, has 6.5 times the national rate of crash deaths per 100,000 residents (lemmy.world)
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Gary, Indiana. took the number two spot. Jackson, Mississippi took number three, though they were nowhere close to Daytona Beach, with 3.84 and 3.79 times the median rate of car deaths.

Among small towns — those with populations under 50,000 — Dayton, Texas (located in the greater Houston metro) topped the list with a crash death rate an astonishing 12.4 times the national median

Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JoWMRt2vMV2uwlzPc4InSJlKckEHr5WyxYbXTIIIjHo/edit?gid=0#gid=0

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[–] 21 points 1 year ago*
  1. It's a car grid world of 6-lane surface roads with high speed limits.
  2. It's where people on the east coast go to retire (Elderly drivers).

And Daytona Beach in particular is a NASCAR speedway town.

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