The Netherlands is close in size to Maryland, and close in the number of inhabitants as New York. Also half of the traffic is cars and half is bicycles. It's pretty insane how bad Mississippi is.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I tried looking into why Mississippi was so far worse. Mostly just finding people self report texting and driving more there, infrastructure is shitty, enforcement is shitty, DUIs are high they recently just upped the civil fine of texting while driving from $25 to $100.

For fun I looked to see what Mississippi would be like if it was its own country, and do to GDP it was compared to Morocco and Kenya.

Car Deaths per 100,000

Mississippi: 26 Morocco: 17.29 Kenya: 28

Kenya is 4x as dense as Mississippi is though, so still hard to say Mississippi is safer than Kenya. It's just numbers

[–] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (6 children)

tried googling it also and prompted "which state is easiest to get drivers license?" and one answer was "probably washington, you dont have to parallel park there, just attempt it" and it told me everything I need to know about the safety of US roads

[–] nwtreeoctopus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Yet, Washington has one of the lowest rates on this scale. Maybe it's because you have to go to driving school if you want a license before 18?

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