Cedar Rapids Tops list of U.S. cities with safe pilot
Perhaps it is understood the participation of citizens in engineering or courtesy, slower rhythms of the Middle west, but a new study shows that motorists in this eastern town of Iowa are the safest of the nation .
Researchers with Allstate Insurance Co. analyzed two years worth of internal crash and claim data to calculate the likelihood that drivers in 196 largest cities in the nation would be involved in an accident compared to the national average.
Allstate, which claims a market share of 12% of the nation of auto insurance policies, found that Cedar Rapids motorists average an accident once every 15 years, much better than the national average against one every 10 years .
Motorists from the city of high-level due to a variety of factors, including effective management intergovernmental relieved travelling in the city, the city is simple, grid layout and the slow pace and attitude of Iowans in General.
“I would think, is because everyone is so polite,” Connie Trautman, 10 years, residing in Cedar Rapids, said Monday.
With a population of 122500, Cedar Rapids is one of the smaller cities of people interviewed by Allstate. But the report, the results reflect the results of an earlier study by GMAC Insurance Group, Iowa drivers in the highly classified knowledge on transport and safety rules that the State in the third nation.
After Allstate, the other behind safer cities Cedar Rapids were, respectively: Sioux Falls, SD, Chattanooga, Tenn..; Huntsville, Ala., Knoxville, Tenn..; Des Moines, Topeka, Lakewood, Colo., Fort Collins, Colo. And Birmingham, Ala.
Allstate researchers say, it is not surprising that some of the biggest nations, dense urban centers are among the places most often for accidents to wait.
Washington, 25 ranking in the nation for population, the city is less safe for motorists with a chance on a fender bender once every 5.2 years.
But not all major cities misclassification on the safety of the scale, the study.
Driver Milwaukee, 19 Rankings of the population, are likely to lead to a blockage 12.95 experience once annually the best in cities of over 500000 people. Among cities with more than 1 million people, Phoenix ranks the highest for security, with a collision likely once every 10 years.
The researchers studied 2.2 million claims, defined as any property damage resulting from collisions, recorded between January 2002 and December 2003, a time sufficiently large to limit the influence of external factors such as weather and roads.
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