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[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

It's 27 in mississippi, so only about twice as deadly.

Edit, actually, let's revisit the data. You said 60 per 100000 vehicles, if you shift that to population, the data point I used, it becomes 32. Only slightly more deadly than living in the southern US

[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think that says a lot about Mississippi

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Its a pretty similar statistic for most rural states.

Consider that the population is lower but the ratio of people driving is much higher. Less cities, more people have to commute 30-60 minutes, etc.

Part of it is poor infrastructure, yeah(the other southern rural states with similar stats track a better record comparatively based on quality of infrastructure by my own personal anecdote of having driven/lived in them), but it's just predominantly the ratio of drivers to non drivers as the key factor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Florida looks around sweating nervously over lack of guardrails

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Don't forget all the meth

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

That's pretty good!