According to a new report, South Carolina has the third most reckless drivers in the country.
The report released by Car Insurance Comparison lists South Carolina at number 3, only behind Wyoming at #1 and New Mexico at #2.
The study used data compiled based on five categories; fatal hit and run crashes, fatal police pursuits, fatal rollover accidents, fatal crashes caused by speeding, and fatal crashes in a work zone.
Researchers then analyzed those numbers with the number of reckless drivers per capita for their rankings.
According to the study, each state’s best category was police pursuit except for one: South Carolina, which had a lower number of fatal crashes in work zones than in police pursuits. Work zones, police pursuits, and hit and runs were the three categories in which all states generally had the lowest number of fatal crashes.
The data determined that South Carolina had a total of 658 fatal crashes from reckless drivers in 2019, which is 12.8 per every 100,000 residents, and the Palmetto State’s best category was Work Zone and our worst was Speeding.
According to the study, South Carolina’s 658 reckless driving fatal crashes in 2019 is a full seven above the average for all states.
It is the only state on the list where its best category was not police pursuit.
Its worst category was speeding, where it had 416 fatal crashes, accounting for 63 percent of its total. The difference in speeding fatal crashes and the fatal crashes for the other categories was so pronounced that South Carolina’s second-worst category (rollover) had less than half the fatal crashes that were in the speeding category.
