ALL buckle up laws are ANTI-FREEDOM...
Whether you buckle up(OR not) is NOT the Feds,State or local law enforcements business..
Busy body government is ANTI-FREEDOM... and anti-free-market..
Massachusetts has good lawyers. Since the Kennedy’s are dying off, there are more DUI experts available.
I remember getting onto a fairly busy interstate, and moving into the flow of traffic. The front end of my old car started vibrating seriously. I looked at the speedo and the whole pack was going over 95.
I’m surprised that Nodak is 10. I just moved here, and they are the most considerate drivers I’ve encountered in my travels.
The worst offense for Alabama was tickets. I believe that. When driving around here, I am more worried about the Kojak with a Kodak around the next turn more than the drunk or texting drivers.
Oh, BS. Rhode Islander are the worst. I’ve traveled all over the U.S. and those morons drive as if there is no one else on the road. Ohio is second. CT, where I live, is bad, too. People in CT don’t drive as if no one is on the road they drive as if no one else SHOULD be on the road but them.
California should be on the list for:
1. Driving in the dark with lights off.
2. Driving in the rain with wipers off.
3. Inability to stay in a single lane for more than 6 feet.
4. Driving <1 foot from your rear bumper.
5. The # of recent undocumented third world immigrants on the road.
Over the years I have done a lot of driving by car over most of the country. Some of that driving recently. On Interstates, on other highways, in cities and towns. I have noticed that some of the worst driving I have observed in that time is drivers in cars that have plates other than the local state plates. New York drivers are, in my certainly no more than anecdotal observations, the worst. Mass and NJ might be tied for 2nd. And also high on the list are the occasional vehicle with DC or Gov’t plates. Seems these ‘liberals’ don’t think the laws apply to them, or else they let go when they get outside their own self-made (via the ballot box) environment.
I am sure there are some professional drivers (truckers) out there who might have better anecdotal observations than mine, based on a whole lot more in the way of observations.
I find it easy to drive in California, including the busy freeways, and in years past I felt similarly about Detroit and Chicago. There is a lot of fast driving, but I have found it to be courteous and controlled.
I will drive 100 miles out of the way to keep from going through Oklahoma City!
Non advertised secret about seat belt tickets in NC: you can take a $20, hour and a half “safe driver” class and the $250+ fine will be dismissed.
Correlate the number of illegal aliens and blacks with the states that have the worst driving records. I wonder if that would have an effect upon the data?
Suspicious that the top 5 are southern states. Drivers are far less courteous in the north. The worst, however, is Puerto Rico - when I used to go there semi-regularly in the 80’s there wasn’t a car on the island that wasn’t dented.
Pittsburgh Amish and my mother-in-law should be included in any worst driver list, though not sure which should be ranked higher....
It was either the Amish who PARKED in the middle of the Fort Pitt Bridge and let the kiddies run around on the highway while Baby-Momma took pictures - or my MIL, who uses the pine trees at the bottom of her driveway as a guardrail.
I’m an excellent driver.