SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With the holiday travel season officially here, QuoteWizard (quotewizard.com), an online insurance comparison marketplace, today released a new proprietary study ranking 2017’s best and worst driving states in the nation https://quotewizard.com/news/posts/best-and-worst-drivers-by-state-2017.

Following QuoteWizard's 2016 best and worst drivers by state and city studies, this year's study provides updated rankings on all 50 states.

From worst to best, here are the rankings of all 50 states: https://quotewizard.com/news/posts/best-and-worst-drivers-by-state-2017. Among its findings, QuoteWizard found that these are the nation’s five worst driving states for 2017:

  • California
  • Minnesota
  • Utah
  • South Carolina
  • Washington

On the other hand, these are the five best driving states for 2017:

  • Rhode Island
  • Florida
  • Mississippi
  • Michigan
  • Arkansas

In addition to ranking all 50 states, the study also addresses a possible discrepancy in driving skills along political lines.

“If you’ve ever been cut off by someone with an out-of-state plate and thought, ‘Oh, it figures,’ this study may be for you,” said Adam Johnson, QuoteWizard content manager. “QuoteWizard analyzed millions of datapoints on drivers from throughout the US and what we found provides a pretty interesting and sometimes surprising snapshot of the best and worst drivers in America.”

Methodology

QuoteWizard sampled incident data (with more than two million data points) from drivers who used its services and linearly extrapolated it to Federal Highway Administration fatality data. To quantify overall driver standards for comparison, QuoteWizard then weighted various incident counts for each state with its frequency. The final rankings are a sum of weighted means which is calculated from total accidents, speeding tickets, DUI, citations and fatalities.

About QuoteWizard

QuoteWizard (quotewizard.com) is an insurance comparison marketplace for consumers looking to save on insurance. QuoteWizard provides consumers with direct access to thousands of qualified agents in all 50 states, as well as major carriers, who offer personalized quotes and the opportunity to save up to 40% on auto, home, health, and life insurance. Agents and carriers, in turn, benefit from millions of highly qualified leads, calls and traffic to their site. Based in Seattle, QuoteWizard was founded in 2006.

Contacts

for QuoteWizard
Mark S. Peterson, 206-390-0204
Mark(at)pointerpr.com