US states with the worst drivers EXPOSED: Texas tops chart

Drivers in Texas are the most reckless people on the road, according to new research.

A new analysis using six metrics, including accidents due to drunk and distracted drivers, reveals where the worst drivers in the US live.

The Lone Star State topped the list with a score of 100 out of 100, with the second highest percentage for drowsy drivers involved in fatal car collisions and also for fatal car crashes involving a driver on the wrong side of the road. the road involved or navigating a wrong road. -way street.

Louisiana is second, followed by Kansas, Oklahoma and Kentucky.

Montana came in ninth, but had the most drunk drivers per capita — 19.01 per 100,000 drivers.

Analysts with Forbes advisor has crunched the numbers and broken down the most dangerous and safest drivers in America by state.

According to Forbes, five of the top 10 states with the worst drivers are in the southern US, and several others in the desert southwest.

Texas topped the list of states with the most deadly horrible drivers, with Louisiana, Kansas, Oklahoma, Kentucky and New Mexico just behind the Lone Star state.

Oddly enough, many of the country’s most populous states were found to have the safest drivers, including Rhode Island, California, and Massachusetts.

Washington, DC, the most populous area in the country, also had the safest drivers. Maybe it’s all the excruciatingly slow, bumper-to-bumper traffic on the Beltway.

Six metrics were used in Forbes’ analysis of bad drivers in the United States – each representing a major category of dangerous driving that they factored into each state’s overall ranking.

First, the analysis examined the number of drunk drivers involved in a fatal car accident per 100,000 licensed drivers.

Then Forbes collected data on fatal car crashes involving a distracted driver per 100,000 licensed drivers. Their definition of “distracted” included drivers caught looking at their phones, talking or eating at the time of the collision.

They also looked at fatalities from drowsy drivers per 100,000 licensed drivers, which included not only drivers who were asleep, but also those who were fatigued, sick or passed out.

Drivers who did not comply with the rules, with all the consequences that entailed, were split into two groups.

Forbes analyzed fatal car accidents involving a driver going the wrong way on a one-way street or ending up on the wrong side of the road as one group per 100,000 licensed drivers. The other group consisted of drivers who had ignored road signs, traffic lights or traffic police per 100,000 licensed drivers:

All five of these crashes counted equally in Forbes’ analysis of fatal bad driving in each state, contributing 18 percent to a state’s total score.

And all the data for these categories comes from taking the average of these fatalities from 2018 to 2020, as collected by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

But a final category, which made up just 10 percent of each state’s total score, came from private data collected by the mobility data and analytics company Arity: the number of registered drivers who looked at their cell phones per mile, relative to the American Average.

With all these ways to be a bad driver, some states had minor records.

Montana topped the rankings for drunk driving fatalities, with approximately 19.01 fatal accidents per 100,000 licensed drivers, despite ranking ninth overall in terms of bad drivers overall.

And New Mexico had the highest rate of fatal auto accidents attributed to distracted drivers, with 9.54 accidents per 100,000 licensed drivers.

In the end, Texas ranked only worst in terms of cumulative bad driving.

The state ranked second for both sleepy and ghostly road deaths and third for drunk driving deaths, but it didn’t turn out to be the worst in any specific type of deadly bad driving.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics and the nonprofit National Safety Council, the number of fatalities in car crashes has risen since 2019.

The number of deaths involving cars increased by 11 percent in 2021, with 46,980 deaths due to a motor vehicle that year. But in 2020 there was already an 8.3 percent increase in the number of car deaths, a jump from 39,107 deaths in 2019 to 42,338 deaths in 2020.

Last year, the number of deaths in car accidents remained almost stable at the alarmingly high level of 2021, with 46,270 fatalities recorded.