According to a new Roadmap for Highway Safety report by Advocates for Highway Safety, Rhode Island and South Dakota are the best and worst states, respectively, for driver safety in the U.S.
Each state is given a ranking based on what the safety advocacy group considers 16 fundamental traffic safety laws to ensure roadway safety.
“The push to fortify and expand the safety laws laid out in the roadmap comes because crash statistics are on the rise in the U.S. after more than a decade of declines. More than 37,000 fatalities occurred on America’s roads in 2016, the first year of an increase, and the numbers were basically flat through the first half of 2017, the most recent statistics available.”
Read the article at The Detroit Bureau.