{"id":4938,"date":"2014-12-23T16:30:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T23:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=4938"},"modified":"2014-12-23T16:30:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T23:30:04","slug":"study-confirms-it-montana-drivers-the-worst-or-tied-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2014\/12\/study-confirms-it-montana-drivers-the-worst-or-tied-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Study confirms it: Montana drivers the worst (or tied, anyway)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4940\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"addboard wp-image-4940 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/carcrash.jpg\" alt=\"Crash\" width=\"771\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/carcrash.jpg 771w, https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/carcrash-336x227.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This probably didn&#8217;t happen in Montana, but you get the idea.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s official. Everybody loves to complain how terrible all other drivers are, and one constantly reads\u00a0and hears the claim that &#8220;Billings drivers are the worst,&#8221; or, in the alternative, &#8220;Montana drivers are the worst.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a nationwide ranking compiled by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carinsurancecomparison.com\/which-states-have-the-worst-drivers\/\"> CarInsuranceComparison.com<\/a>, Montana tied with South Carolina as home to the worst drivers. The ranking gave each states points for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fatalities rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled.<\/li>\n<li>Failure to obey (percentage of fatal crashes that involved traffic tignals, not wearing seat belts, and driving with an invalid driver license).<\/li>\n<li>Drunk driving (percentage of fatal crashes that involved alcohol).<\/li>\n<li>Speeding (percentage\u00a0of driving fatalities that were speed-related).<\/li>\n<li>Careless driving (pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities per 100,000 population).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We ranked No. 1 for drunk driving, which, alas, is no big surprise, third for \u00a0fatality rate, fifth for speeding, seventh for failure to obey (think of all the red-light runners in Billings alone!) and 44th, somehow, in careless driving.<\/p>\n<p>The way the rankings work, the more points the better. And as the study authors point out, poor Montana and South Carolina were tied with 60 points each, &#8220;a staggering 148 points behind&#8221; Minnesota, the state with the best drivers.<\/p>\n<p>All I can say in our defense is that I&#8217;m from Minnesota and still get back there on a regular basis, and I believe Minnesotans spend just as much time as we do complaining about the way everybody else drives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s official. Everybody loves to complain how terrible all other drivers are, and one constantly reads\u00a0and hears the claim that &#8220;Billings drivers are the worst,&#8221; or, in the alternative, &#8220;Montana drivers are the worst.&#8221; In a nationwide ranking compiled by CarInsuranceComparison.com, Montana tied with South Carolina as home to the worst drivers. The ranking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1852,1849,1851,3148,1850],"class_list":["post-4938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-bad-drivers","tag-carinsurancecomparison","tag-minnesota","tag-montana","tag-south-carolina","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}