The Safest States For Driving: Traffic Death Rates Higher In Northern Plains and South, A New Report Finds

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August 21st, 2014

FORBES: The safest places to drive in the nation are the District of Columbia and Massachusetts, but West Virginia, South Carolina, North Dakota and Wyoming are among the worst states.

Those are the results of a new report that found that while road safety in the United States has improved substantially in the last decade — road fatalities across the nation are down about 23 percent since 2005 – fatality rates vary greatly by region.