There’s a saying in Georgia about the state of driving in Georgia that goes, “Georgia drivers, no survivors.” But a new national study has found that Greensboro might need to find a catchy phrase like that to describe drivers in this city.
A new study by quotewizard.com – a site that compares auto insurance rates between companies based on individual driver data – found that Greensboro has the 11th worst drivers in the country.
The city’s drivers didn’t quite make the Top 10, but only missed that unenviable list by a hair.
Some other key findings for the State of North Carolina are as follows:
- Greenville has the 8th worst drivers in the nation.
- Durham has the 20th worst drivers in the nation.
- Charlotte has the 34th best drivers.
The study also found that Virginia Beach, Virginia, is the city with the worst drivers in America, while Detroit has the best drivers.
Quotewizard looked at driving in the 70 largest cities in the US and those cities were then evaluated based on four factors to determine overall driver quality: speeding tickets, relevant traffic citations – “such as running a red light or using a cellphone while driving” – accidents and DWIs.
Of the 70 cities studied, Greensboro came in 20th in accident rank, 3rd in DWI rank, 7th in speeding and 36th in citations.
So, the major contributing factor of Greensboro’s high showing is the number of drinking and driving incidents. The Top Five (top five worsts, that is) in that category are:
- San Diego
- Bakersfield, Calif.
- Greensboro
- Riverside, Calif.
- Los Angeles
The overall chart topper for bad drivers is Virginia Beach, which came in at No. 1 largely due to drivers’ high rates of traffic citations issued per capita. Virginia Beach, for instance, ranks 5th in the category for moving violations.
The prize for worst-driving city in Ohio and the second worst in the nation goes to Dayton.
According to the findings, “Three Ohio cities rank among the worst drivers, and not a single city in the state is among the best. And it’s no wonder: according to our best and worst driving states in 2022, Ohio ranked fifth-worst overall. Dayton’s poor driving ranking is due to a high number of speeding incidents (second-worst overall) and citations (third worst).”
Well golly, really. Get the police to pull over people that are smoking weed while driving, texting while driving. If it doesn’t involve alcohol then we seem to not give a crap. The driving while intoxicated or while distracted issues are huge. Hardly anyone including city / county vehicles use a turn signal. Many of those drivers are also on their phones. There’s a sit back and let them all kill themselves mentality here, well the problem is they usually kill someone innocent, and then we all hear how good a person the driver was, just a mistake sorry…
The police would love to conduct vehicle stops if they had enough people to answer basic calls. 41 homicides. 2022 had 41 the whole year.
People in Greensboro have never been able to drive. Nothing new.
Hey Scott did we beat Charlotte or Raleigh?
Seems we beat Charlotte for the worst, way to go!
It may be all those people who move here from California as the other 4 cities who are bad drivers due to drinking and driving are from CA, so it kinda fits based on all those CA plates you see on the front of cars going down Wendover. I think the biggest issue is that people who learned to drive in CA expect Southerners to know how to merge onto freeways, how to move over for faster traffic, how to use their turn signals, and how to turn left/right into the near lane, but they’d be wrong. Good thing they were taught to drive with a No Fear attitude.
We beat them both.
Kinda figured. The state is in support of higher speed limits that will fix a lot
Slightly higher speed restrictions from a low baseline tend to reduce the accident rate.
I’ll never forget a newsman at WFMY named Lee Kinard who expressed his outrage when Reagan lifted the 55mph limit. The poor guy was about to have a thrombo.
But the accident rate on Interstates fell, and kept falling.
Your self-righteous indignation was all wrong, wasn’t it Mr Kinard?
Most of the accidents in GSO happens because of running red lights. Or once, I saw where the first driver stopped, but the driver behind him thought he would run the light, so he rear-ended the car. GSO police has its hands full with short staffing and no incentive to issue tickets.
Another study of best and worst drivers does not mention Greensboro. In general, I think “studies” are makework for those who have an agenda. Same as polls.