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-Short Attention Span Theater-
The deadliest highways in America revealed - with the 'least safe' responsible for nearly 4.5K deaths a year
2024-05-12
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Texas is most dangerous state for highway driving with 4,500 deaths in 2021, followed by California, Florida, George and North Carolina

  • The safest state for collisions recorded 63 deaths in 2021; the five safest are Rhode Island, Alaska, Vermont, Hawaii and North Dakota

  • The study used data from National Highway Transportation Safety Association
Posted by:Skidmark

#14  Anything to do with uninsured drivers?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2024-05-12 19:13  

#13  #7 Can confirm from recent road trip. The rest stops in Texas were top notch. CA are not much more than pit toilets.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2024-05-12 19:11  

#12  TW it’s the state of George in the article, you didn’t do anything wrong
Posted by: Beavis   2024-05-12 18:48  

#11  George along the Garden Route. Nice little place 20 years ago. Hope it still is.
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-05-12 16:30  

#10  Whoops! Wholuper Trotsky5294 is me — I cleared my cookies and now have to do the work of resetting.
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-05-12 13:52  

#9  It’s meant to be Georgia, Beavis, but they don’t have any Rantburgers copy-editing. Fixed.
Posted by: Wholuper Trotsky5294   2024-05-12 13:45  

#8  What state is George?
Posted by: Beavis   2024-05-12 12:41  

#7  My experience in Texas is they maintain their freeways which is more than I can say for California.
Posted by: Spaviper Lumplump4797   2024-05-12 12:19  

#6  Total deaths or deaths per miles driven? There is more than one way to slice up a dataset.

Most accidents happen within 25 miles from home, so we should all move. Do it for the children!
Posted by: SteveS   2024-05-12 11:18  

#5  How do the worst states compare in terms of raw or per capita or per road-mile illegal alien numbers versus the best states?
Posted by: trailing wife   2024-05-12 11:12  

#4  By the way - states use real data to determine where to pend their highway improvement money. In addition to the usual political considerations.
Posted by: Bobby   2024-05-12 10:36  

#3  Not even "Consumer Reports", but "Consumer Affairs", who 'analyzed' the data to score the points they wanted - seat belt use, speed limits, drunk driving laws (not enforcement). No per-mile data and no trend analysis.

Top notch!
Posted by: Bobby   2024-05-12 10:35  

#2  Hawaii among the safest. How far can you drive in Hawaii? Texas can take days to cross.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-05-12 10:15  

#1  Article doesn't analyze deaths by individual highway. It reports on an analysis by Consumer Reports who looked at government data without apparently even understanding it.
Posted by: Lord Garth   2024-05-12 08:34  

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