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Lowest road safety by state

Traffic deaths.

People killed in motor-vehicle crashes per 100,000 residents. Fatal crashes are counted where they occurred, so this reflects road conditions and travel exposure as well as resident risk. Withheld for counties under 1,000 residents: a handful of events on a denominator that small produces a rate that is arithmetically correct and practically meaningless.

  1. 1Rhode Island8.9
  2. 2Massachusetts10.4
  3. 3New York11.7
  4. 4District of Columbia12.2
  5. 5Hawaii14.8
  6. 6New Jersey15.7
  7. 7Vermont17.5
  8. 8Minnesota19.1
  9. 9Pennsylvania19.4
  10. 10Virginia21.1
  11. 11Maryland21.2
  12. 12Utah22.0
  13. 13Washington22.0
  14. 14Illinois22.1
  15. 15Ohio22.2
  16. 16New Hampshire22.4
  17. 17California22.8
  18. 18Iowa23.8
  19. 19Alaska25.1
  20. 20Wisconsin25.6
  21. 21Michigan26.0
  22. 22Delaware26.3
  23. 23North Dakota26.5
  24. 24Maine26.7
  25. 25Indiana27.0
  26. 26Kansas27.5
  27. 27Colorado28.0
  28. 28Oregon28.8
  29. 29Georgia28.9
  30. 30Idaho30.2
  31. 31West Virginia30.8
  32. 32Nevada31.0
  33. 33Nebraska31.7
  34. 34South Dakota31.8
  35. 35North Carolina34.2
  36. 36Texas34.4
  37. 37Florida34.8
  38. 38Louisiana35.6
  39. 39Kentucky36.5
  40. 40Missouri37.8
  41. 41Oklahoma38.7
  42. 42Wyoming39.5
  43. 43Montana40.4
  44. 44Alabama41.2
  45. 45Tennessee41.9
  46. 46Arizona42.0
  47. 47Arkansas43.6
  48. 48South Carolina45.5
  49. 49New Mexico47.3
  50. 50Mississippi64.5

Not ranked, because this measure is not published for them: Connecticut.

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Source: NHTSA FARS. · How this is built