Drivers in Washington, D.C., crash more than anyone, Allstate says

Whether it's their problems with "taxation without representation" or the flood of foreign diplomats weaving around town, drivers in the nation's capital are the most likely to get into a car accident, according to a new report from Allstate.

The insurance company's annual study on safe drivers, now in its ninth year, looked at property-damage claims in 194 cities from January 2010 through December 2011 and compared them to the national average. In Washington, D.C., drivers were 109 percent more likely to get into a crash, while the D.C. suburbs of Alexandria and Arlington, Va. – along with Baltimore, Providence, R.I., Philadelphia and Miami – were ranked among the top 10 cities for the most accidents. Interestingly, Boston wasn't on this list, but that's only because Allstate didn't collect sufficient data from Massachusetts.

Allstate said that 70 percent of all claims resulted in vehicles that were still operable after a crash, evidence that low-speed crashes are the majority of all reported accidents.

In D.C., drivers went an average 4.8 years between accidents, compared with the "safest" city, Fort Collins, Colo., where drivers went 13.9 years between crashes. In this much smaller city, drivers were 28 percent less likely to get into a crash than the national average.

Other cities where drivers crashed the least were Boise, Idaho; Sioux Falls, S.D.; Brownsville, Texas; and Madison, Wis. For the full report and to see where your city stands, go to Allstate's news website.

[Source: Allstate]


Source: MSN