I'm guessing gun violence is much the same.

How the heck are Victorians down the bottom? Is it just the sheer size of our population keeping that number in check...?

It's around 2.5 per 100 000 in Norway.

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The thing that surprised me most after moving to Oregon was how bad the drivers were. I've lived in many states across the South, the Midwest, and West Coast and I've never encountered drivers so consistently vindictive, entitled and reckless as the drivers in Oregon.

Is it the issue of safety standards?

. . . Huh. Here in Vic every year we get targeted with so many ads being like 'worse year ever for road deaths, drive safe, etc'

I assume this includes pedestrians and cyclist deaths? It's by population rather than by "car" or "km driven" but I'd like to see a per county breakdown.

The fact that California, a state with THIRTEEN TIMES MORE PEOPLE than Mississippi, has less than half the number of traffic fatalities is mind blowing. Mississippi is just 30% of the landmass that California represents, and yet it gets more than double the amount of traffic fatalities.

Looking at the left side of the graph, the trend is easily recognizable. Drunk angry and repressed, poverty stricken republicans will drive drunk like it's the right to bear arms. The further right you go, the more democratic the state.

Wait what?? British Columbia is less than Alberta? There are single lanes in dangerous areas in comparison to Alberta.

You gotta enforce traffic laws in order to maintain safety.

Also*, where is Maine?