*Topping this list: Hawaii. The Aloha State has the worst drivers in the nation with a large number of motorists running red lights, changing lanes, or turning without signaling and speeding 20 mph or more over the limit*.
So when I was in the Army back in the late 90’s I was stationed in Hawaii.
There were parts of the Island that had no street names , yes names, not signs, names.
Since OP left out any mention of the states. Here is the list:
1. Hawaii
2. Oregon
3. New Mexico
4. Wyoming
5. Alaska
6. North Dakota
7. Connecticut
8. Vermont
9. Kansas
10. West Virginia
11. New Hampshire
12. Minnesota
13. Kentucky
14. Virginia
15. Arkansas
"MD drivers are so crazy" - VA driver in MD going 15 under the speed limit in the left lane despite getting passed on the right by 20 cars in the last five minutes.
Disagree. From minnesota, the worst place to drive is wisconsin. Five under the speed limit in the left hand lane running parallel with the semi truck in the right hand lane? Yep, it's a Wisconsin plate.
Lived in MD for past year. Marylanders are ridiculous. There's always someone going 35 and another going 95 in a 55 zone. Then in my area of Maryland there's Amish rising around in buggies on those same roads. Not to mention reason areas of camera enforced ticket zones where everyone slams on their brakes abruptly but the 1-2 guys that don't read the sign fly through and swerve by everyone to maintain their 95-100 mph.
Currently in Maui. The speed limits here range from 45 to 55, and nearly everyone abides by it aside from a few drivers I've seen weaving through cars. Overall I've been impressed with the drivers here.
Wtf Oregon #2? No way this is accurate.
When I travel outside of Oregon I have up my aggressiveness and selfishness several notches to fit in.
One could probably just look at places with highest insurance to find a better correlation.
Portland recently won most well behaved drivers in another recent study, and those are the most aggressive drivers in the state after maybe Eugene because of the students, so something fishy is up with this one.
The "study" from Forbes (which is basically a Tabloid Plus these days) was from self-reported data. Having lived in Oregon my whole life, I don't think anywhere on the west coast is particularly horrible for driving. Drivers are relaxed and relatively predictable here, which makes driving a lot safer. I genuinely did not see a single driver use their turn signals when I drove through Massachusetts a couple years ago. I'll take my side of the country for driving any day!
Wild that Nevada isn’t on here. Probably 20% of the drivers here don’t even have license plates and there’s so many wrecks every day when I drive to work.
Better name for this dumb shit would be what states cops have the least to do, what states generate the most ticket revenue per capita and what states to never drive in due to bull shit policing
Stupid article
There was an article just a week or two ago about the "deadliest cities to drive in". Two of those cities are in Tennessee, one of which being number 1. Yet its not even in this list at all? Doesnt seem like they even did the most base level research, probably entirely written by AI.
Some of the "most dangerous states" have lower fatality rates than their least dangerous.
It goes by a survey with people admitting "dangerous acts"...if it was by tickets Virginia would probably be #1 despite being one of the more deadly states to drive in. Arkansas is top 5 deadliest states.
New Mexican's admitting to going 20 over earned them their spot, probably regular traffic flow on those big empty highways.
I was expecting Florida to be on this list for the fact that Miami has the worst drivers in the US, and I don't even think it's close. That being said, the rest of the state is pretty average as far as driving goes.
Yeah I think the biggest problem for Florida is with the snowbirds and vacationers. these two types come from all parts of the country. The hustle and bustle of the NY NJ metro area vs the laid back Midwest drivers. Do they even have stop lights in Iowa? Snowbirds also tend to be old and entitled, can hear or see very well.. and like their adult beverages when dining. Just my humble observations
It’s more a mix of old crazy and young crazy, a barbell distribution of speeds on any type of road, and a blatant disregard (or often unawareness) for safety and road signs
And everyone one of those shitty drivers on I95 are convinced they are good drivers and everyone else is bad. Really a shitty situation down here guys, send help.
Absolutely agree with your Miami comment. I’m down there for a week each month on business and someone comes inches from taking me out EVERY SINGLE TIME.
The entire West coast of Florida is insanity. Good mix of psychos weaving through at 50mph over the limit and grannies going 20mph. No one is paying attention to shit.
And the storms that can hit the bend will absolutely blind you.
That is not fair, though, because on any given day, Florida, anywhere in the state, has a significant % of drivers who are new to the area or are tourists. It is not the FL residents who are horrible drivers, it is the visitors and newbies, mostly.
I get it. I-95 from Palm Beach to Miami is the same. I was second lane from the right of 4 lanes heading southbound going 75 in a 70. Broward Sheriff (I didn’t realize until he passed me) came up on my ass blisteringly fast. Finally whipped around me and flipped me off for going too slow.
Lexington might not be bad compared to Atlanta, but the drivers here are some crazy people. My stepdad is from Chicago and says these drivers are the rudest he’s ever seen. And with all the construction on 75 and other various roads, it’s been insane
Maybe it’s because I’m so numb to bad driving from Alabama, but it’s still not the worst I’ve been around. Traffic absolutely sucks in Lexington, though. The complete lack of arterial roads really makes it annoying to drive in.
Oh yeah, traffic in this city is incredibly bad for a city this size. Worse than other similarly sized cities. I live on one of the main roads and they’re doing construction and traffic will get backed up miles and miles to downtown. Desperately need either better public transport or an out loop. Or both
Californians would lie like hell on a survey like this and the cops in California don’t do Jack anymore. Drivers here suck. Bunch of speeding, tailgating, cell-phone checking zombies. How that can be a combination, I don’t even know, but it definitely is.
Having lived 25 years in Texas, I call full shenanigans on this. Texas drivers will kill 15 people just to pass someone, and then slow down to wait for someone else to challenge them.
New your drivers are aggressive, but they’re purposeful - they’re going to make a turn, or merge, and that’s final, youse hear me?
Florida, angry and impaired.
California? Defeated and desperate.
Minnesota? Mostly polite, sometimes to the extent of COMING TO A FULL STOP TO LET SOMEONE PASS!
DC/NoVa? I think most of the drivers have at least two bench warrants out. Unpredictable.
Arizona? Distracted. Except on loop 101 in Scottsdale/phoenix. On that area, they’ll do 120 in the right lane, and the slow drivers heading for the left lane will just drive across four lanes, thanks very much.
Lol, every place has its best and worst drivers, depending on how you manage your driving. Anyway, I know a few drivers who are already using Natix to earn from street mapping, which is a great way to enjoy the ride while making money at the same time.
Connecticut drivers, I would’ve expected to rank higher on the list. I’ve literally sat at intersections where people aggressively wave each other through, completely ignoring traffic rules. It’s like they’re more focused on being “polite” than paying attention to safety. They’ll wave you in when it’s not even safe to go, then get annoyed if you don’t risk an accident just to follow their lead.
Just yesterday in Marietta I almost crashed when an idiot took a rihht hand turn siddenly from a left hand lane right as i passed them, without warning or a turn signal, I pulled a U turn just to cuss his ass out.
So it's a bullshit list because it's all based on admission rather than actual evidence. All this proves is that Hawaii is more honest than the rest of the country. I've lived in Hawaii and I can say that there's horrible drivers out there but it's not worse than the other states I've lived in that never got on top ten of this list. It's just a horribly written and performed study.
I've been to a lot of places, including most all of those on the list. Maryland, which is not on the list has by far the worst drivers I have seen in the US, and the second worst is not even close.
Been in Ohio, Illinois, and Kansas for a couple months to years each. Anecdotally, I had the best experience with Ohio drivers around the Akron and Cleveland areas, nothing really stood out to me. Chicago drivers really like their horn and speeding (45mph+ in 30 or even 25mph zones), and I can guarantee finding a traffic weaver almost anytime I drive up there. Kansas City... I feel like the typical driver is pretty tame versus in Chicago except I seemed to have had a lot more run ins with outliers - going probably 90-100mph with no headlights at night, really aggressive tailgating in the right lane for some reason, a good number of people missing an exit and yanking back on the freeway way too late. Shitty driving that doesn't simply annoy you but terrifies you.
There’s a pretty big divide between drivers in Chicago proper and the outlying suburbs. And yes, people in Chicago love their horns. Me included. I live in Tampa now and everyone here is shocked how much I use my horn lol.
The suburbs are fast too. 10-15 over is standard. A lot of people running red lights and staring at their phone. Not many people using their horns, got to be polite when driving like a moron.
I would probably lump Chicago downtown with the suburbs more than the surrounding rural areas. People west or south of Chicago more tend to drive 5 over to even 15 under haha.
Orygone drivers are the worst, not attentive, no sense of surroundings. They hog the left lane, and forcing you to do dangerous shit to get around them.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/15i7rjz/oc_camry_swerves_and_causes_rollover_accident_in/
Plugging my own post, but I see some of the craziest stuff happening every single day.
Yesterday, I saw a huge green venting hose fly out of a truck on the express lane and two cars proceeded to hit said hose, before it split into pieces, sending pieces EVERYWHERE.
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I live in Massachusetts and I can tell you that Connecticut drivers have a habit of sitting in the outside lane and not passing cars inside of them. Just can't wrap my ahead around it.
I do not believe this list LMAO, I definitely experience some terrible drivers on I-5 in Oregon but they're nothing compared to the reckless drivers I've seen in Florida, Texas, and Utah.
I don't know, this seems questionable? Analyzis of insurance accident reporting while imperfect would be better indicator than arbitrary law enforcement data.
The level of enforcement can vary so different from state to state, while insurance accident reporting is at least going to be roughly the same.
This seems like a better data on what enforcement each state is doing rather than necessarily a good indicator of driver quality?
I've been living in Maryland, really close to DC, for the past year, by far this is the worst state I've lived in with the worst drivers. I love driving but I'm starting to hate it because of these fuckers. I've seen these assholes take a right turn from a left turn lane. Just no sense of road rules or driving it seems. I literally was in a middle lane to turn left and somebody decided to go around somebody else and use that lane as a passing lane and was close to ramming me head-on. The only thing that saved them is there was no traffic around me on the other side so he went into that lane to get around me and then had the audacity to honk his horn like I was in his fucking way for making an illegal pass. Just straight up assholes around here must be all the shitty politicians and the rot that seeps into the land and the people. I'm out here for work but I wouldn't live here otherwise. Fuck this ass hat state.
Total BS. Texas has some of the worst drivers in the country. Yes they're less aggressive than drivers in the NE but they make up through sheer stupidity.
Spent six months in south Texas (just north of Brownsville area) and the most unnerving thing was on two lane roads when you’d come up on someone they’d move onto the shoulder to let you pass while continuing to do 65mph.
I moved from Texas to Maryland last year. The driving is so much better here. Haven’t seen a pistol being flashed yet either. Also not as many unsafe vehicles on the roads.
3 of the top 5 states have large military presences, which means people with driving styles from all over the country clashing. Oregon at number 2 doesn't shock me, people fail to yield all the time here and won't let you into a lane even if you handed them a handmade invitation.
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