Texas Driver Safety City Rankings
Driving on many Texas roadways can be a bit of an adventure. Depending on the city where you happen to be driving, you may find the drivers to be less friendly, aggressive, or in a bigger hurry than other cities. Especially if you don’t normally driver in the busy cities and are used to the slow paced rural farm to market roads in many small Texas towns. When you get on a freeway in Dallas, Houston, or Austin, you will likely feel like it is time to grab the wheel tight and get ready for just about anything. So what city in Texas do you think has the safest drivers? Which city’s drivers need to be sent to the nearest state approved Texas driver safety course?
Referencing an Insurance study by Allstate, the Dallas Morning News wrote an article recently that ranked where many Texas cities ranked based on insurance claims filed. The rankings report uses the 200 largest cities in the United States and provides how much more or less likely drivers in that city are to be involved in a collision when compared to the national average. So what Texas city is the safest according to this report? Fort Worth.
Unfortunately the rankings don’t say much about the driver safety skills of Texas drivers since Fort Worth only ranked 138 out of 200. Drivers in Fort Worth are 20.6% more likely to be involved in a vehicular crash than the national average, with an average span of 8 years between crashes. Dallas for example was ranked 170 out of 200 and drivers there are 35.6% more likely to be involved in a crash. In the ever competitive nature of Houston and Dallas, Houston wins the driver safety battle with a ranking of 151 out of 200. Still not too good though when compared to cities outside of the state. The worst city in Texas on the list was Garland. So make sure you have your seat belt fastened and your hands at ten and two the next time you are going through Garland.
Click here to check out the full story in the Dallas Morning News.
