Death rates correlate with education levels, urbanization rate, alcohol consumption, car size, driving laws, speed cameras, and road design.
Am I stupid? Where's New Hampshire?
Fatalities per capita is probably less interesting than fatalities per unit of distance driven.
Notice how the states you'd be trying to leave or drive through as fast as possible are all grouped at one end of the scale?
I'm not saying this is the only reason. But it can still be a reason.
Pretty clear pattern with the US states. The lowest death rates are decidedly blue and the highest are decidedly red.
Unless I miscounted they seem to be missing a few states.
Arkansas at #3. I am not remotely shocked. People here drive like complete morons who are oblivious to everyone else on the road. Just on your average trip to Bentonville -- which is about 8 miles from me -- you're almost guaranteed to see half a dozen cars blow through a red light. I've had more close calls than I can count.
Currently live in Louisiana, close to Arkansas border. The roads are just as bad as the drivers. I learned to drive when I still lived in Cali. I've had to find tune my predictive idiot sense living where I do now. I legit think vehicles are sold here without blinker fluid
I'm willing to bet half those BC stats are actually Albertans driving into the mountains. Significantly more westbound than eastbound fatalities in the Rockies. If you fall asleep at the wheel in Alberta you wake up in the middle of a corn field. If you fall asleep at the wheel in BC you don't wake up.
I'm from Washington and I'm surprised we're not higher. In the winter it's dark during both morning and evening rush hour, meaning most people are doing their commutes in the dark. It can feel pretty dangerous sometimes.
I'm genuinely surprised Utah isn't higher on this list. I've driven in many states, and that state has by far the worst drivers I've encountered.
In the UK in 2023, it was about 2.5 per 100,00 people.
That chart is incomplete.
There are a lot of missing people underwater in their cars, in the South and Midwest.
Missing states..
As a MA resident, I have always said that we're highly aggressive drivers but overall pretty safe as long as you can walk the walk. Just never show fear.
Its actually really easy, don't be a fuckwit and you won't get fucked with.
God fucking damnit I knew it wasn’t confirmation bias when I moved from Illinois to Alabama and though, “god damnit, people don’t know how to drive down here.”
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