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Lowest road safety trend by state

Change in traffic deaths per 100,000.

The change in the traffic-death rate against the previous reporting period. Negative means fewer deaths per head than before. Fatal crashes are rare in small counties, so a single crash can swing the rate hard — read this alongside the population, not on its own. 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. 1Wyoming-26.1
  2. 2Louisiana-8.5
  3. 3Idaho-7.3
  4. 4Vermont-6.3
  5. 5Oklahoma-6.2
  6. 6West Virginia-5.8
  7. 7Delaware-5.6
  8. 8North Dakota-5.4
  9. 9Georgia-4.9
  10. 10Ohio-4.4
  11. 11Kansas-4.2
  12. 12New Mexico-3.8
  13. 13Iowa-3.6
  14. 14Arizona-3.4
  15. 15Alabama-3.0
  16. 16Kentucky-2.8
  17. 17Oregon-2.7
  18. 18Tennessee-2.7
  19. 19District of Columbia-2.6
  20. 20Washington-2.6
  21. 21Pennsylvania-2.3
  22. 22Rhode Island-2.0
  23. 23Maryland-1.9
  24. 24Arkansas-1.8
  25. 25California-1.8
  26. 26Illinois-1.4
  27. 27Florida-1.3
  28. 28New York-1.3
  29. 29Indiana-1.2
  30. 30Montana-1.2
  31. 31Texas-1.0
  32. 32South Dakota-0.8
  33. 33Nevada-0.6
  34. 34Colorado-0.2
  35. 35New Hampshire0.0
  36. 36Virginia0.1
  37. 37Missouri0.2
  38. 38Massachusetts0.4
  39. 39North Carolina0.5
  40. 40Michigan0.9
  41. 41New Jersey0.9
  42. 42South Carolina1.2
  43. 43Wisconsin1.3
  44. 44Utah1.4
  45. 45Minnesota2.5
  46. 46Hawaii3.1
  47. 47Nebraska4.5
  48. 48Alaska6.9
  49. 49Maine7.3
  50. 50Mississippi8.8

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

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Source: NHTSA FARS. · How this is built