[wskinner]

There are over 40,000 _fatal_ car crashes per year in the US, and a few orders of magnitude more non-fatal crashes. Most of them do not make the news.

[genewitch]

A plurality of those are in Texas, as well. I used to say, someone in the US is more likely to die in a car wreck in Texas even if they never go to Texas, that's how skewed they make the statistics. But I stopped looking at the stats a few years ago so I stopped saying and defending that. It's just a new lens to view this information through.

[callc]

Source? A quick googling shows from https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/fatal-car-a... deaths per 100k pop in 2022:

- Mississippi 23.9 (highest)

- Texas 14.7

- CA 11.3

- Rhode Island and DC 4.8 (lowest)

Anecdotally, the huge trucks and driving culture (aggressive, fast) would have made me guess Texas has higher deaths before seeing the data.