One Southern California city has some of the worst drivers in the nation, according to a new study by Consumer Affairs, an online research organization.
Hesperia, in San Bernardino County, recorded the nation’s highest number of car crash deaths caused by speeding—averaging 10.9 per 100,000 residents in 2021, the most recent year recorded by the U.S. Department of Transportation. The national average was 3.7 per 100,000, researchers reported in the study published July 12.
They analyzed the 2021 transportation department data as well as that from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System to rank cities with over 100,000 in population.
The research team examined four crash factors per 100,000 in each city to create a “crash score,” including total car-crash fatalities, number of fatal crashes attributed to bad driving, those involving a driver who tested positive for alcohol, and the number of deaths from speeding….