Coming to a complete stop to change lanes on the road So, there’s a long, long, slow line of cars in the right-hand lane, where people are trying to exit, usually onto a ramp onto another highway. Some people just can’t figure out how to get into that line unless someone puts it out on a silver platter for them. … Read More

Attempting suicide in the “suicide lane” Snowbirds who have any confusion at all about the “center turning lane,” or reversible lane, should not use it. This is where the center lane is reserved for one direction of traffic in the AM commute into Phoenix,and the other direction during the PM commute out of Phoenix.   Phoenix has two of these — … Read More

Turning right to go left It’s an SUV, not a semi-trailer. There is literally  no reason to turn the wheel left to make a right turn, and there’s no reason to turn the wheel right to make a left turn, unless we’re talking about a drifting competition. There are few things scarier than cruising down a surface street at 50 … Read More

Car crashes are up by as much as six percent in CO, NV, OR and WA, compared with neighboring states that haven’t legalized marijuana for recreational use, new research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) and Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) shows. The findings come as programs to decriminalize marijuana gain traction with citizens in America, and Canada … Read More

Montana’s drivers have been ranked the nation’s worst three times since 2014, and even when it’s not rock bottom, it’s always among the ten worst. Montana drivers ranked poorly in all of the NHTSA’s categories of data, but the state truly distinguished itself as having had the highest number of fatalities due to disobeying traffic laws. It also had the … Read More

Two of the deadliest driving behaviors—drunk driving and speeding—are something Arizona is improving on; the state ranks only 15th worst in the nation. Unfortunately, Arizona drivers tend to be careless (sixth highest number of carelessness-related fatalities in the nation) and have an unhealthy disregard for the rules of the road (seventh highest number of failure-to-obey-related fatalities in the nation)

The third worst driving state overall is Louisiana, which has been ranked the worst three times since 2010 and has the sixth highest number of traffic fatalities overall. Louisiana also happens to have high rankings for fatalities relating to a failure to obey traffic laws (second), careless-driving fatalities (fourth), and drunk-driving fatalities (ninth). One good thing that can be said for Louisiana’s … Read More

Texas is another state that consistently lands among the top five worst. For 2017, it’s ranked fourth and, for four years in a row, drunk driving has caused the most traffic-related fatalities there. Nationwide, Texas is the fifth worst state for drunk driving. But Texan drivers are pretty consistently bad in every category, according to the NHTSA.

The little bit of good news for Nevadans is that although the state is the fifth most dangerous state for drivers nationwide, its overall number of fatalities—and drunk driving fatalities—land around the median. Unfortunately, Nevada drivers have the fifth worst failure-to-obey fatality rate and the seventh worst careless driving fatality rate. Don’t become part of the statistic; study up on … Read More

Every year since 2013, South Carolina has been ranked as one of the most dangerous driving states. For 2017, it actually made it out of the top five, ranking sixth in terms of nation’s worst drivers overall. However, no state has a higher number of traffic fatalities than South Carolina, with nearly 1,000 during 2017.