http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12954585/
No more arguments about who lives in the area with the worst drivers.
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Jay
Woo-hoo, we’re #3!
Ha, 2 CT cities BARELY made it in the top 100… 
I’ll be getting my license soon after more than a few dozen hours of accident free learners permit driving… Its not me I’m worried about, its the other nuts on the road!
HMM. From my experience I’d say the chart also correlates closely with driver courtesy. Note the number of NJ and MA cities at the bottom. Their driver’s ed must teach that a good defence is a good offence. [:D] Surprisingly, however, NYC not near the bottom. Nothing personal meant to anyone here.
Lol I dont think Wyoming has enough of a population to qualify for this study as a whole state rather than just a city! If they ran a Wyoming town (Except Jackson) it would probably be better that most! [:P] Sometimes I think most people don’t even know that Wyoming exists, Infact some people think that Yellowstone National Park is completely in Idaho and Montana and never even think of Wyoming being the state which contains 90% of the park, as well as the Tetons. I think we need better Geography lessons in our shools. There was a study done that a majority of college students could not pick out the USA on a world map, let alone different states. Sometimes we feel left out. [:(]
They have cars in Wyoming???
My immediate reaction was to scroll to see who was the bottom. So I hardly noticed who was at the top.
They would take a greater interest if their teachers would tell them what the translation of “tetons” was, and it’s not just plain Tetons it’s “Grand Tetons”.
Best drivers? Give me Jimmie Johnson, Tony Stewart (can’t wait for the backlash), and Mark Martin for best drivers–throw in Tiger Woods–all good drivers!!!
As for Dallas, TX drivers, say a prayer, and get a DART pass! DART–Drivin’ Around Regional Trauma! The difference between Fort Worth and Dallas is like night and day!
Sioux Falls, SD is number one…BIG WHOOP…no suprise in that news as nobody lives there…in other words, no cars, no problem. Seriously folks, it is no big revelation that on this list, the majority of the cities with the best records are those with very small populations when compared to those (like Chicago, New York, LA, etc.) with monster populations of people and cars…just common sense should lead just about anybody to this conclusion without spending millions on a survey or study.
Statistical nonsense. Notice how all the cities with MILLIONS of residents are at the bottom while the rural burgs with populations in the 1000’s get best results?
Take the same rate of accidents say 5% of and multiply it by the population
Metropolitan: 5% x 3M = 150,000 accidents per year
Rural 5% x 100K = 5,000 accidents per year
Gee no wonder Souix Falls got #1
I realize theirs more to these surveys but when you boil all the fat off of them the above is basically what you end up with.
PS have you ever seen what happens when the country folk from Souix Falls try driving in a big city like L.A. ???
Only then, when you see these hayseeds trying to navigate a freeway interchange or city parking structure, do you realize how ridiculous these surveys are. Its amazing they survive from the airport all the way to their hotels at all.[:0]
the BEST drivers are here, in the cities, where if your NOT a dam good driver every day, you end up in a heep, or in Sioux Falls Io.[;)][:D]
Yea Vic, I know a couple of old timers up in Modoc that have never even seen a stoplight, let alone a freeway.
And RJ, I hear ya on the geography thing. You would be suprised how many people down here think Bakersfield is northern California.
Generally that may be true, but I’ve been out to LA several times and have traversed all the major expressways through the city without incident. Of course the experience I gained learning how to drive on the Minneapolis freeway system was invaluable. My son, who learned how to drive here in CR and gained all of his experience here, now lives near the Wilshire exit on the 405, and has resided in the LA area for three or four years without a major accident.[:P]
How much of this is luck and how much is driving talent?
I would LOVE to have a bunch of hayseeds in the DC area. What we have here is tons and tons of immigrants whose previous driving experience is limited to donkeys and oxcarts, and have no conception of the distance needed to slow or stop a motor vehicle. Gets REALLY interesting when one of those immigrants is driving an overloaded gravel truck and knows no ordinary car or truck is going to dispute the right of way with him.
So your son is liveing in my old haunt. I was head tech for Century cable (now Adelphia) in Santa Monica for 6 years. I used to drive that part of the 405 every day between there and Van Nuys where I lived. Small world eh’.[8D]
Know why its called the 405 freeway?
Cause you can only go 4 or 5 mph!
Fortunately I worked 2pm to 11pm Wed-Sun so traffic wasn’t that bad for me, but you are right, dureing peek hours that freeway just plain SUCKS.
We made #1[:D]
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(I’m still not moving there).