Arkansas, Not Texas or California, Has the Nation’s Highest Rate of Aggressive Driving Deaths
Arkansas, not Texas or California, recorded the nation’s highest rate of aggressive driving fatalities in 2024, according to a new state-by-state analysis from Wettermark Keith , which found that a driver in Arkansas faced nearly three times the per-capita risk of dying in an aggressive driving crash compared to a driver in California, despite Arkansas recording a fraction of California’s total population and traffic volume. Arkansas posted a fatality rate of 7.66 deaths per 100,000 residents from just 235 total fatalities, far below the raw totals recorded in Texas (813) and Florida (791), yet still the highest rate in the country once population is factored in. Montana ranked second at 6.50 per 100,000, followed by Louisiana (5.51), Alabama (4.97), Wyoming (4.79), and New Mexico (4.34), with Indiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, and Vermont rounding out a top ten in which eight of the ten states sit in the South, Mountain West, or Great Plains. By contrast, more densely popu...
